South Whittier Eviction Risk: Elevated

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. The dominant input is local political climate at 7.5/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Average gross rent is $2,322, 22% above the South Whittier average. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 22.3% against 14.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 25.9% against 17.8% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $108,475.

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