Midtown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Palo Alto

roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Santa Clara County average of 43.5%. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10. SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Santa Clara County average of 8.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.9% 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. Social vulnerability reads 3.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $250,001, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent is $3,501, close to the Palo Alto average.

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.