Wasco Eviction Risk: Elevated

SNAP participation runs 34.8% against 15.2% nationally. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.2/10. Housing insecurity runs 29.4% against 14.2% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Kern County average of 6.4 closely. Average gross rent is $1,118, close to the Wasco average.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $70,058.

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.