Little Saigon Eviction Risk: High , San Jose

Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $898, 66% below the San Jose average.

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

It sits 1.9 points above the Santa Clara County average of 8.0. 72% 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. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for San Jose. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $60,588, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.