Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.5% against 11.3% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,111, 25% below the Bakersfield average. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 7.1/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Kern County average of 6.4.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 3.1/10.

Nationally it ranks #10,320 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in two of renters. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $46,161. 54% 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.