Sycamore Creek Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lake Forest

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Against the Orange County average of 7.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.8 points.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Food insecurity runs 10.0% against 17.8% nationally. At $3,213 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Mission Viejo commands.

SNAP participation runs 7.9% against 15.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 13% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.3 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $131,042.

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.