Harbor Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Costa Mesa

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7/10.

SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally. Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 2.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, 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 $2,605, close to the Costa Mesa average.

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.