Ridgecrest Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $1,676 a month, rents run 41% over what the rest of Ridgecrest commands. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points below the Kern County average of 6.4. The voucher gap is 21.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.1/10. SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 19% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.4/10.

Against average income of $114,397, annual rent is just 18%. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.5 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition 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.