Petaluma Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.9/10. At $2,880 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Petaluma commands. It sits 1.0 points below the Sonoma County average of 6.9.

Cost burden runs 54% here against 49.9% across Sonoma County. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally. Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 3.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least 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 24% of average household income of $145,478.

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.