Ridgecrest Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $829 a month, rents run 30% under what the rest of Ridgecrest commands. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 6.9/10. Nationally it ranks #13,349 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 24% 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. Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $63,676, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Kern County average of 6.4 closely.

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