Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Alta Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Sandy
Tract 49035112804 · Salt Lake, UT · pop 5,478 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 49035112804 sits in the Alta Heights area of Sandy eviction risk, UT, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Population here is 5,478. 46% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units1,684
Renter share23.9%
SVI overall0.23
Poverty rate9.0%
Median income$112,963
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
24
th percentile
Low
Within county
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
41
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Sandy and the region
Centroid at 40.5515, -111.8628 · click any tract to drill in
Why Alta Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Sandy
2.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Utah legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
9.0% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$2,108 rent vs county FMR
7.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Sandy
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Sandy
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Sandy
2.0
How Alta Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 22%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%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)
- 62Total filings over 9 yrs
- 2.09%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.4%Peak (2010)
- 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 150% over the past 9 months.
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.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.9%Food insecurity
- 5.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 17.4%Frequent mental distress
- 28.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Alta Heights
Cost burden runs 65% here against 42.4% across Salt Lake County. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. The voucher gap is 20.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Average gross rent is $2,108, 19% above the Sandy average. SNAP participation runs 5.7% against 15.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 62 evictions over 9 years of observation. Against the Salt Lake County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 4.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 49035112804
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 49035112804?
Census tract 49035112804 in the Alta Heights neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 49035112804?
Median gross rent is $2,108/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 49035112804?
9.0% of residents in tract 49035112804 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,478.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 49035112804?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 23th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 17th, household 22th, minority 39th, housing 46th.
Q5
Is tract 49035112804 considered part of Alta Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 49035112804 fall within Alta Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 49035112804?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 62 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 49035112804 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.09% of renter households, peaking at 4.4% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 49035112804 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.6% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 49035112804 compare to Sandy overall?
Tract 49035112804 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Sandy at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Sandy eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Sandy
Top eight tracts in Sandy ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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