Freedom Eviction Risk: High , Watsonville

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.2/10. It sits 1.7 points above the Santa Cruz County average of 6.8.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $1,523 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Watsonville commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 20.0% against 11.3% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $58,205.

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