South Pasadena Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.0 points.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 6.4% against 15.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

On the national scale it lands near the 81st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $178,200, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $2,250, close to the South Pasadena average.

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.