Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against Kern County at 49.2%, 73% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Housing insecurity runs 39.6% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 59%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 47% of average household income of $29,443, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 86% 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.

Adults with no health insurance runs 24.7% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,159, 21% below the Bakersfield average. It sits 1.1 points above the Kern County average of 6.4.

On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.