San Marcos Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 52.5% across San Diego County. 83% 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. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $71,301 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10. SNAP participation runs 27.1% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.

Food insecurity runs 27.4% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.8 points above the San Diego County average of 7.6.

Average gross rent is $2,140, 9% below the San Marcos average. That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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