Fountain Plaza Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fountain Valley

Cost burden runs 69% here against 51.8% across Orange County. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.9/10.

Average gross rent is $3,501, 33% above the Fountain Valley average. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10.

The voucher gap is 20.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Orange County average of 7.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.2/10. SNAP participation runs 7.3% against 15.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 11% 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. Social vulnerability reads 4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler.

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