Los Altos Eviction Risk: Elevated , Long Beach

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 47% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

The voucher gap is 14.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 21% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.8/10 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.