Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Adults with no health insurance runs 27.0% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.1 points above the Kern County average of 6.4. Average gross rent is $1,315, 11% below the Bakersfield average. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Bakersfield eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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 28% of average household income of $55,882. 46% 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.