Freedom Eviction Risk: High , Watsonville

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.2/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Santa Cruz County average of 6.8. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Santa Cruz County average of 48.5%.

Adults with no health insurance runs 18.8% against 11.3% nationally. Food insecurity runs 25.2% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $2,100, 11% above the Watsonville average.

On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $95,179.

39% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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