South Gate Eviction Risk: High

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Food insecurity runs 40.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Housing insecurity runs 32.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Set annual rent against average income of $47,115 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 74% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. It sits 0.9 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. At $1,393 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of South Gate commands.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 96th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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