South Coast Eviction Risk: High , Santa Ana

The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 69% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 8/10.

Cost burden runs 61% here against 51.8% across Orange County. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $2,122, close to the Santa Ana average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $81,758.

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.