Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

Housing insecurity runs 43.4% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 47%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Disability prevalence runs 53.0% against 31.5% nationally. 78% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Kern County average of 49.2%. Set annual rent against average income of $40,941 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. At $1,180 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Bakersfield commands.

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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.