Portola Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lake Forest

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10. It sits 1.7 points below the Orange County average of 7.0. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 9.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.7/10. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $197,132, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

51% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $2,634, close to the Rancho Santa Margarita average.

26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.