Whittier Narrows Eviction Risk: High , South El Monte

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.2/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.8/10.

SNAP participation runs 29.6% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Housing insecurity runs 24.1% against 14.2% nationally. At $2,029 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of South El Monte commands.

It sits 0.7 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition 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.