The Groves Eviction Risk: Elevated , Irvine

Against Orange County at 51.8%, 68% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $130,221 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The voucher gap is 20.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Average gross rent is $3,501, 17% above the Irvine average. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 7.1/10. Housing insecurity runs 6.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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