Hermosa Beach Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. It sits 2.0 points below the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 5.0% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.3% 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. On the national scale it lands near the 81st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.