Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.3/10. The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 28.4% against 11.3% nationally.

Set annual rent against average income of $35,735 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Average gross rent is $1,021, 31% below the Bakersfield average. This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Kern County average of 6.4. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 51% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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