Ragsdale Eviction Risk: High , Merced

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Cost burden runs 54% here against 43.3% across Merced County. Against the Merced County average of 7.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $1,113 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Merced commands.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. SNAP participation runs 23.2% against 15.2% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $55,037.

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