Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Moderate

The voucher gap is 41.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 9.2/10. Average gross rent is $1,953, 33% above the Bakersfield average.

It sits 1.7 points below the Kern County average of 6.4. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.1/10. Against Kern County at 49.2%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 5.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.8 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $106,538.

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