Lakewood Eviction Risk: Moderate

It sits 2.9 points below the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.

45% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Average gross rent is $2,661, 13% above the Lakewood average.

That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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