Bakersfield Eviction Risk: Moderate

The voucher gap is 29.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The dominant input is supply constraint at 7.9/10.

Cost burden runs 41% here against 49.2% across Kern County. At $1,784 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Bakersfield commands. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.5/10.

Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Housing insecurity runs 24.6% against 14.2% nationally. SNAP participation runs 23.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.3 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $78,750. 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.