Downtown North Eviction Risk: Elevated , Menlo Park

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. Cost burden runs 35% here against 44.9% across San Mateo County.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.4/10. SNAP participation runs 3.2% against 15.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.4% against 11.3% nationally.

At $3,501 a month, rents run 8% over what the rest of Menlo Park commands. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, 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 housing type and transport 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.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.