Lakewood Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.1/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $2,836 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Lakewood commands.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 10.2% against 17.8% nationally. Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 12% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2/10, 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 housing type and transport 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. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 53% of renters.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.