Palm Desert Eviction Risk: Elevated

31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.6/10. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $53,036, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

68% 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. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Riverside County average of 6.6. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10. At $1,533 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Palm Desert commands.

That is riskier than roughly 90% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.