Waimalu Eviction Risk: Lower , Pearl City
Tract 15003007812 · Honolulu County, HI · pop 2,226 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
In the Waimalu neighborhood of Pearl City, census tract 15003007812 scores 4.2/10 for eviction risk. It lands near the 16th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 34% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 6% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,266 monthly, set against $104,504 in average yearly household income, roughly 26% of income at the averages. About 32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pearl City and the region
Centroid at 21.3959, -157.9516 · click any tract to drill in
Why Waimalu scores 2.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Waimalu compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 21%Socioeconomic
- 24%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 48%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Waimalu. 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.
- 11.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.2%Food insecurity
- 12.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Waimalu
The heaviest input here is eviction process difficulty at 5.3/10. 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 Pearl City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Honolulu County average of 5.1 and below the Hawaii statewide average of 5.1. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.0% 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 35th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 15003007812
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Highest-risk tracts in Pearl City
Top eight tracts in Pearl City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.