The Highlands Eviction Risk: Elevated , Irvine

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

Food insecurity runs 5.7% against 17.8% nationally. The voucher gap is 20.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 46% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Orange County average of 51.8%.

At $3,501 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Irvine commands. Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 19% 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 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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