Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Urban Honolulu
Tract 15003003501 · Honolulu County, HI · pop 2,380 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
How risky is Downtown in Urban Honolulu for landlords? Census tract 15003003501 scores 5.3/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 50% of US census tracts.
About 42% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,929 a month against an average household income of $66,042 a year, roughly 35% of income at the averages. About 54% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Urban Honolulu and the region
Centroid at 21.3027, -157.8463 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Downtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 65%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Downtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.7%Food insecurity
- 12.9%SNAP enrollment
- 7.3%Transit barriers
- 5.4%No health insurance
- 13.3%Frequent mental distress
- 29.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Downtown
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.2/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Urban Honolulu eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Honolulu County average of 5.1 and in line with the Hawaii statewide average of 5.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is Asian and multiracial or other-race and ranks around the 88th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 15003003501
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