Taft Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.2/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. At $1,868 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Taft commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 22.7% against 11.3% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 52 filings here across 9 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2004 at 9.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 14% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Orange County average of 4.2 closely.

Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $73,750.

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