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Diamond Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , San Francisco

Tract 06075021700 · San Francisco, CA · pop 4,602 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Tract 06075021700, home to 4,602 residents in Diamond Heights in San Francisco, scores 7.1/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 96% of US census tracts.

About 60% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 34% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,803 monthly, set against $139,722 in average yearly household income, roughly 15% of income at the averages. Renters make up 30% of occupied homes.

Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 12% Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units1,798
Renter share30.1%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate6.7%
Median income$139,722

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 7 tracts In Diamond Heights
Moderate
Within parent city
26 th percentile
Rank, 26th percentileLowHigh
#179 of 242 tracts In San Francisco
Low
Within county
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#177 of 242 tracts In San Francisco
Low
Within state
37 th percentile
Rank, 37th percentileLowHigh
#5,726 of 9,109 tracts In California
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across San Francisco and the region

Centroid at 37.7403, -122.4393 · click any tract to drill in

Why Diamond Heights scores 4.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from San Francisco
9.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.6
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
6.7% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,803 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from San Francisco
10.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
10.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from San Francisco
10.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from San Francisco
9.5

How Diamond Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Diamond Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.94.9This tracttract 021700San Francisco: 9.79.7San Franciscoparent cityCounty: 5.65.6Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.65.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 41

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Diamond Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Diamond Heights

The score leans hardest on eviction process difficulty at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from San Francisco eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the San Francisco County average of 7.0 and above the California statewide average of 6.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

The tract is racially mixed and ranks around the 41st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.

In CDC survey modeling, about 6.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 06075021700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06075021700?

Census tract 06075021700 in the Diamond Heights neighborhood scores 4.9/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 06075021700?

Median gross rent is $1,803/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06075021700?

6.7% of residents in tract 06075021700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,602.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06075021700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 74th, minority 65th, housing 32th.
Q5

Is tract 06075021700 considered part of Diamond Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06075021700 fall within Diamond Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06075021700 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.8% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 3.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06075021700 compare to San Francisco overall?

Tract 06075021700 scores 4.9/10, lower than the parent city of San Francisco at 9.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from San Francisco eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06075021700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 11% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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