Mesa Verde Eviction Risk: Elevated , Costa Mesa

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.9% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 6.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7/10. Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $172,422, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Orange County average of 7.0 closely.

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.