Harbor Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1.7/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Against a Costa Mesa baseline of 31.3%, 37% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. Running hot is rent-regulation exposure at 7/10. Food insecurity affects 8.9% of adults, 8.9 points below the national rate.

4.9% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. At $2,698 a month, rents sit 10% over what the rest of Costa Mesa commands.

That places it #7 of 7 neighborhoods in Costa Mesa. For a like-for-like read, Mesa Verde and Castaways score within a fraction of it.

Poverty sits at 7%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.2 points apart at the extremes.

With little internal variation, 6.8/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.