Merced Eviction Risk: High

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 83% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Against the Merced County average of 7.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10. Food insecurity runs 27.2% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 24.5% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.3/10. Nationally it ranks #4,119 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.7/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 47% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,331, close to the Merced average. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $53,675.

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.