Morro Bay Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.6% against 17.8% nationally. At $2,172 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Morro Bay commands.

56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the San Luis Obispo County average of 51.5%. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 3.1/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.2/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.3 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the San Luis Obispo County average of 6.5 closely.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $114,097. 28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.