Chico Eviction Risk: High

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 2.2 points above the Butte County average of 6.6. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 69% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. 59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Butte County average of 49.5%.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. SNAP participation runs 28.7% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,215, 18% below the Chico average.

The filing record is not thin: 26 evictions over 1 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 26.1% against 17.8% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 2.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.