Petaluma Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $3,217, 32% above the Petaluma average. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.9/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The voucher gap is 17.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. It sits 1.0 points below the Sonoma County average of 6.9.

55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Sonoma County average of 49.9%. Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally. Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.