Freedom Eviction Risk: High , Watsonville

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

It sits 1.9 points above the Santa Cruz County average of 6.8. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.2/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.4% against 11.3% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 28.1% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,711 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Watsonville commands.

That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 50% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $86,838.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.