Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

Food insecurity runs 43.1% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $985, 33% below the Bakersfield average.

Against Kern County at 49.2%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 2.1/10. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

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. Social vulnerability reads 8.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $49,250.

53% 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.