Merced Eviction Risk: High

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 9.3/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 56% here against 43.3% across Merced County. Against the Merced County average of 7.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points.

Housing insecurity runs 29.1% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $1,251 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Merced commands. Nationally it ranks #4,119 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.4/10.

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. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $48,527.

54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.