Long Beach Eviction Risk: High

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9/10. The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.7/10.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $57,404, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. Food insecurity runs 31.6% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. Cost burden runs 60% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. At $1,676 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Long Beach commands.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. 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.