Lakewood Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.4/10. Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. At $2,725 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Lakewood commands.

That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 13% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 1.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. 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 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $119,028.

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