Ridgecrest Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. Against Kern County at 49.2%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Kern County average of 6.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 6.9/10. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 25% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $93,802, annual rent is just 15%. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.5 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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