Hillcrest Eviction Risk: High

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $44,688, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. Food insecurity runs 32.6% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.