Happy Valley Eviction Risk: Lower , Wailuku
Tract 15009031002 · Maui County, HI · pop 3,774 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 15009031002 (the Happy Valley neighborhood of Wailuku, Hawaii) comes in at 5.2/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 68% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 42% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,723 a month while the average household earns $75,262 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. About 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wailuku and the region
Centroid at 20.8891, -156.4934 · click any tract to drill in
Why Happy Valley scores 2.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Happy Valley compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 58%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Happy Valley. 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.
- 9.9%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.3%Food insecurity
- 10.2%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 5.7%No health insurance
- 13.9%Frequent mental distress
- 25.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Happy Valley
The heaviest input here is rent-control risk at 7.6/10. 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 Wailuku 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 Maui County average of 5.2 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 9.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.2% 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 71st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 15009031002
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Highest-risk tracts in Wailuku
Top eight tracts in Wailuku ranked by composite eviction-risk score.