Kensington Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Redwood City

Against San Mateo County at 44.9%, roughly three in four of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.4/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.1/10. Food insecurity runs 6.0% against 17.8% nationally.

Average gross rent is $3,501, 18% above the Redwood City average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $250,001, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the San Mateo County average of 7.0 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.