The Polo Greens Eviction Risk: Moderate , Bakersfield

The voucher gap is 50.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Average gross rent is $2,076, 41% above the Bakersfield average. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.7 points. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.8 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $126,324. 31% 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.