Porterville Eviction Risk: Elevated

Food insecurity runs 37.5% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.

Cost burden runs 35% here against 45.5% across Tulare County. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $866 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Porterville commands.

Housing insecurity runs 27.8% against 14.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 0.9 points above the Tulare County average of 6.9. Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $49,467.

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