Laguna Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Orange County at 51.8%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.2/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10.

The voucher gap is 20.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. It sits 1.2 points below the Orange County average of 7.0. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10.

Average gross rent is $3,501, 17% above the Laguna Beach average. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.4% against 11.3% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.7 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $155,417. 29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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