Saugus Eviction Risk: Elevated , Santa Clarita

At $3,501 a month, rents run 38% over what the rest of Santa Clarita commands. The voucher gap is 33.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. It sits 2.1 points below the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $117,903, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 8.3/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Nationally it ranks #16,571 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 6.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

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