Los Patrones Eviction Risk: Moderate , Rancho Mission Viejo

Against Orange County at 51.8%, about three-quarters of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10.

It sits 1.8 points below the Orange County average of 7.0. Food insecurity runs 7.4% against 17.8% nationally.

At $3,084 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Rancho Mission Viejo commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

The legal-climate inputs (statute speed, court posture, rent-regulation exposure) come from Rancho Mission Viejo as a whole. Only the economic and supply signals are measured inside this tract. Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.3 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.