Porterville Eviction Risk: High

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.

This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. At $817 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Porterville commands.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Tulare County average of 6.9. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 49% of renters.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.