Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against Kern County at 49.2%, 69% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

Annualized rent equals 48% of average household income of $34,116, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. SNAP participation runs 37.9% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Food insecurity runs 35.7% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Kern County average of 6.4. That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,374, close to the Bakersfield average.

55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.