La Mesa Eviction Risk: High

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. 70% 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.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Average gross rent is $1,520, 26% below the La Mesa average. It sits 1.5 points above the San Diego County average of 7.6. Against San Diego County at 52.5%, 48% of renters here are cost-burdened.

On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $71,667.

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