Castaways Eviction Risk: Elevated , Costa Mesa

30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10.

Against Orange County at 51.8%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7/10.

Food insecurity runs 10.6% against 17.8% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.6/10.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Orange County average of 7.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $2,390, close to the Costa Mesa average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $106,481. 55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.