SoFA Eviction Risk: High , San Jose
Tract 06085500902 · Santa Clara, CA · pop 4,613 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
06085500902 is a census tract in the SoFA area of San Jose, CA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 58%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Jose and the region
Centroid at 37.3330, -121.8796 · click any tract to drill in
Why SoFA scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow SoFA compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 100%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within SoFA. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.7%Housing insecurity
- 13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.5%Food insecurity
- 34.0%SNAP enrollment
- 23.2%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 29.8%Frequent mental distress
- 40.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in SoFA
roughly three in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Santa Clara County average of 43.5%. Annualized rent equals 57% of average household income of $40,167, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 47%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 100% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10.
Food insecurity runs 35.5% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 9/10.
Against the Santa Clara County average of 8.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. At $1,899 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of San Jose commands. Housing insecurity runs 23.7% against 14.2% nationally.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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