Wasco Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs 80% here against 49.2% across Kern County. SNAP participation runs 36.4% against 15.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.6 points above the Kern County average of 6.4. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.2% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8/10.

At $1,289 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Wasco commands. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $53,462.

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.