East Whittier Eviction Risk: High

This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10. Food insecurity runs 32.8% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 30.0% against 15.2% nationally.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,568, 18% below the Whittier average.

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #6,330 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 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 socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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