Ragsdale Eviction Risk: High , Merced

This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Cost burden runs about half here against 43.3% across Merced County. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.2 points above the Merced County average of 7.1. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.3/10.

Nationally it ranks #6,330 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,290, close to the Merced average.

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