Ragsdale Eviction Risk: High , Merced

SNAP participation runs 39.7% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 59% here against 43.3% across Merced County.

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $34,211 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

It sits 1.9 points above the Merced County average of 7.1. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,084, 22% below the Merced average. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 20.1% against 11.3% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #4,119 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 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.