Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 33.6% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,071, 27% below the Bakersfield average.

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 2.8/10. Against Kern County at 49.2%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Nationally it ranks #12,481 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $43,013.

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.