Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

Food insecurity runs 33.3% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Cost burden runs 57% here against 49.2% across Kern County. At $1,162 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Bakersfield commands.

Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Bakersfield eviction risk as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 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 29% of average household income of $48,390.

63% 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.