Hillcrest Eviction Risk: High

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 70.3% against 15.2% nationally. Disability prevalence runs 56.5% against 31.5% nationally.

The poverty rate is 49%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Cost burden runs 64% here against 49.2% across Kern County.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.3/10. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $32,931, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

84% 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. Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. Average gross rent is $1,113, 12% below the Hillcrest average.

That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.