La Cresta Eviction Risk: Elevated

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against Kern County at 49.2%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Adults with no health insurance runs 25.1% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.6/10. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,091, close to the La Cresta average.

Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $42,083.

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.