Ragsdale Eviction Risk: High , Merced

Food insecurity runs 52.1% against 17.8% nationally. This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10. Against the Merced County average of 7.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Average gross rent is $1,044, 25% below the Merced average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $43,281.

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.