La Cresta 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. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10.

Cost burden runs 41% here against 49.2% across Kern County. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.6/10.

Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $80,938, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Kern County average of 6.4 closely. Average gross rent is $1,083, close to the La Cresta average. 25% 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.