Bell Gardens Eviction Risk: High

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10. SNAP participation runs 48.9% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 38.7% against 14.2% nationally.

Set annual rent against average income of $49,656 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.3/10.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

Cost burden runs 62% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 10/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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