Rancho Santa Margarita Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Orange County at 51.8%, 65% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.

At $3,501 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Rancho Santa Margarita commands. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10. It sits 1.7 points below the Orange County average of 7.0.

The voucher gap is 20.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 6.7% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 5.1% against 15.2% nationally.

Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.1/10. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.3/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.2 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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