Desert Hot Springs Eviction Risk: High

68% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Riverside County average of 53.8%. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10.

Against the Riverside County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $39,034, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. 76% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Food insecurity runs 34.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 31.5% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,209 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Desert Hot Springs commands. That is riskier than roughly 95% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.4/10.

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