Casta del Sol Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mission Viejo

Against the Orange County average of 7.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.8 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Orange County average of 51.8%. Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Average gross rent is $2,857, 9% above the Rancho Santa Margarita average. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.3 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. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $149,702.

33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.