Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 06029002818 · Kern, CA · pop 4,933
Tract 06029002818, home to 4,933 residents in Bakersfield, scores 5.9/10 for landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 73rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 58% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,406 monthly, set against $87,660 in average yearly household income, roughly 19% of income at the averages. About 29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bakersfield and the region
Centroid at 35.3323, -119.0852 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bakersfield scores 6.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bakersfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 62%Household composition
- 75%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 18.2%Housing insecurity
- 10.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.1%Food insecurity
- 24.6%SNAP enrollment
- 12.4%Transit barriers
- 12.4%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 38.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bakersfield
The heaviest input here is eviction process difficulty at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Bakersfield eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Kern County average of 6.1 and in line with the California statewide average of 6.1. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 18.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 74th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Bakersfield
Top eight tracts in Bakersfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.