Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Kern County average of 49.2%. Food insecurity runs 28.3% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 22.8% against 14.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Bakersfield eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.6/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Kern County average of 6.4 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,433, close to the Bakersfield average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $67,758. 58% 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.