Monterey Park Eviction Risk: High

Set annual rent against average income of $44,688 and the ratio lands at 46%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10.

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 34.8% against 17.8% nationally.

This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 30.9% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 0.9 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. At $1,695 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Monterey Park commands.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Los Angeles. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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