Chico Eviction Risk: Elevated

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. The filing record is not thin: 21 evictions over 1 years of observation. Against the Butte County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 2.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters.

Average gross rent is $1,456, close to the Chico average. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $61,884.

57% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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