La Cresta Eviction Risk: Elevated

Cost burden runs 69% here against 49.2% across Kern County. Food insecurity runs 45.4% against 17.8% nationally.

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10. Housing insecurity runs 34.8% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10.

This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $42,540, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.6/10. It sits 0.9 points above the Kern County average of 6.4. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,156, close to the La Cresta average.

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