Friendly Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Whittier

It sits 2.4 points below the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10.

The voucher gap is 23.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 9% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

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 1.5 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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