South Coast Eviction Risk: High , Santa Ana

It sits 1.6 points above the Orange County average of 7.0. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10.

Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Housing insecurity runs 26.1% against 14.2% nationally.

At $2,431 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Santa Ana commands. Against Orange County at 51.8%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.

SNAP participation runs 22.9% against 15.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $91,471.

37% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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