Porterville Eviction Risk: High

Against Tulare County at 45.5%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $1,573, 37% above the Porterville average. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $52,744, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. SNAP participation runs 30.2% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Tulare County average of 6.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Adults with no health insurance runs 22.9% against 11.3% nationally. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10. Nationally it ranks #6,330 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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