Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Wailua Homesteads Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 15007040204 · Kauai County, HI · pop 6,039 · 64% of tract blocks fall in Wailua Homesteads
Tract 15007040204 sits in Wailua Homesteads eviction risk, HI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6/10. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units1,976
Renter share23.3%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate9.5%
Median income$92,313
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
71
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
57
th percentile
Elevated
National
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Wailua Homesteads and the region
Centroid at 22.0777, -159.3838 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wailua Homesteads scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Wailua Homesteads
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.4
State political climate
Hawaii legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
9.5% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$2,077 rent vs county FMR
4.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wailua Homesteads
9.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wailua Homesteads
4.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wailua Homesteads
6.8
How Wailua Homesteads compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 19%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 5Total filings over 1 yrs
- 1.34%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.3%Peak (2005)
- 5Filings in 2005 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.4%Housing insecurity
- 6.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.2%Food insecurity
- 10.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.7%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 25.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wailua Homesteads
The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9.5/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10.
Cost burden runs 50% here against 42.6% across Kauai County. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.4/10.
The filing record is not thin: 5 evictions over 1 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2005 at 1.3% of renter households.
In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Only 23% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 3.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Kauai County average of 5.6 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 15007040204
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 15007040204?
Census tract 15007040204 in Wailua Homesteads scores 6/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 15007040204?
Median gross rent is $2,077/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 15007040204?
9.5% of residents in tract 15007040204 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,039.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 15007040204?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 35th, minority 71th, housing 45th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 15007040204?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 5 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 15007040204 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.34% of renter households, peaking at 1.3% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 15007040204 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 15007040204 compare to Wailua Homesteads overall?
Tract 15007040204 scores 6/10, right in line with the parent city of Wailua Homesteads at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wailua Homesteads eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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