Ford City Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 39%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Disability prevalence runs 47.7% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.4/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.9% 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 1.0 points.

Nationally it ranks #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

49% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $993, close to the Ford City average.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $45,976.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.