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Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally

Orange Heights Eviction Risk: High , Pasadena

Tract 06037461902 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,000 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

With a score of 9.5/10, tract 06037461902 in the Orange Heights area of Pasadena, CA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,000. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45% Stable renters 50% Owners 5%
Tract context
Occupied units1,260
Renter share94.8%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate29.0%
Median income$66,786

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 8 tracts In Orange Heights
High
Within parent city
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#4 of 35 tracts In Pasadena
Very High
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#867 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#1,235 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Pasadena and the region

Centroid at 34.1488, -118.1481 · click any tract to drill in

Why Orange Heights scores 9.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pasadena
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
29.0% poverty · this tract
7.2
Supply constraint
$2,251 rent vs county FMR
3.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pasadena
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pasadena
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pasadena
6.4

How Orange Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Orange Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.59.5This tracttract 461902Pasadena: 8.18.1Pasadenaparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Orange Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Orange Heights

This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $66,786 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Cost burden runs 47% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.2/10.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037461902

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037461902?

Census tract 06037461902 in the Orange Heights neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 06037461902?

Median gross rent is $2,251/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037461902?

29.0% of residents in tract 06037461902 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,000.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037461902?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 30th, minority 76th, housing 99th.
Q5

Is tract 06037461902 considered part of Orange Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037461902 fall within Orange Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037461902 struggle to pay rent?

About 14.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037461902 compare to Pasadena overall?

Tract 06037461902 scores 9.5/10, higher than the parent city of Pasadena at 8.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pasadena eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06037461902 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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