South Pasadena Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.8 points.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10. The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.1% against 15.2% nationally.

At $1,986 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of South Pasadena commands. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least 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.