Imperial Beach Eviction Risk: Elevated

At $3,014 a month, rents run 50% over what the rest of Imperial Beach commands. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10. 11% 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 10.8% against 17.8% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the San Diego County average of 7.6 closely. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $118,634.

44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.