Ridgecrest Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 10/10. The severe-burden share is 35%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Set annual rent against average household income of $32,210 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10.

SNAP participation is 36.1% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 2/10.

Disability prevalence reaches 45.6% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. The filing record is not thin: 204 evictions logged in this tract.

The worst year on record was 2010, when filings touched 26.4% of renter households. At $1,000 a month, rents sit 9% under what the rest of Spartanburg commands.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 4.8/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.