Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.2/10. Average gross rent is $2,485, 29% below the Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley average. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

It sits 1.7 points below the Santa Cruz County average of 6.8. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Food insecurity runs 10.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points cooler.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.