Boulder Creek Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $2,782 a month, rents run 46% over what the rest of Boulder Creek commands. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.2/10.

Against the Santa Cruz County average of 6.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.9 points. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.

Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.6 points cooler.

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.

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.