The Highlands of Los Gatos Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10.

Against the Santa Clara County average of 8.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.7 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.2/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.0% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 3.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. 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. 40% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $3,501, close to the Los Gatos average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $216,484. 26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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