Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
Benton Park Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 06029002701 · Kern, CA · pop 2,968 · 74% of tract blocks fall in Benton Park
06029002701 is a census tract in Benton Park, CA. It scores 7.8/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,968. 47% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units791
Renter share26.5%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate43.0%
Median income$43,393
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
82
th percentile
High
Within state
57
th percentile
Elevated
National
89
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Benton Park and the region
Centroid at 35.3431, -119.0305 · click any tract to drill in
Why Benton Park scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Benton Park
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
43.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,204 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Benton Park
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Benton Park
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Benton Park
6.9
How Benton Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 10%Housing & transportation
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 31.0%Housing insecurity
- 18.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.9%Food insecurity
- 42.7%SNAP enrollment
- 20.2%Transit barriers
- 23.6%No health insurance
- 22.4%Frequent mental distress
- 45.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Benton Park
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 42.7% against 15.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 40.9% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 43%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $43,393, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 1.4 points above the Kern County average of 6.4. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10.
Cost burden runs 56% here against 49.2% across Kern County. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 6.9/10. On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 06029002701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06029002701?
Census tract 06029002701 in Benton Park scores 7.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 06029002701?
Median gross rent is $1,204/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 06029002701?
43.0% of residents in tract 06029002701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,968.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 06029002701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 73th, minority 89th, housing 10th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 06029002701 struggle to pay rent?
About 31.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 18.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 06029002701 compare to Benton Park overall?
Tract 06029002701 scores 7.8/10, higher than the parent city of Benton Park at 6.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Benton Park; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Benton Park
Top eight tracts in Benton Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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