El Cajon Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.1/10. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.5/10.

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the San Diego County average of 52.5%. Food insecurity runs 8.9% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 0.9 points below the San Diego County average of 7.6. Average gross rent is $2,063, 11% above the El Cajon average.

On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 12% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $142,697, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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