Oroville Eviction Risk: High

Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 36.5% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 39%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against Butte County at 49.5%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.1/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $36,667 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. It sits 1.7 points above the Butte County average of 6.6. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.1/10.

The filing record is not thin: 36 evictions over 1 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2014, when 8.3% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 8.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.