Long Beach Eviction Risk: High

97% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Annualized rent equals 45% of average household income of $39,872, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9/10.

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Adults with no health insurance runs 22.7% against 11.3% nationally. At $1,504 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Long Beach commands.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Los Angeles. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.