Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

36% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

At $798 a month, rents run 46% under what the rest of Bakersfield commands. Food insecurity runs 44.2% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against Kern County at 49.2%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened. This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Housing insecurity runs 32.3% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10.

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.