Old Palo Alto Eviction Risk: Elevated

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10.

It sits 1.1 points below the Santa Clara County average of 8.0. Housing insecurity runs 4.3% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 2.5/10 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 2%, 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. 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.