Bell Gardens Eviction Risk: High

SNAP participation runs 41.1% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 40% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Disability prevalence runs 44.3% against 31.5% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,450, 14% below the Bell Gardens average.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

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.