Hill Section Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs around a third against 24.4% citywide, putting Hill Section 10.1% over its own city. The severe-burden share is 18%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Running hot is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10.

At $2,774 a month, rents sit 20% under what the rest of Manhattan Beach commands. 2.9% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

2.9% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Rent takes 17% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Its 6 tracts score within 0.8 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses.

34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

With little internal variation, 5.9/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.