Koreatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Garden Grove
Tract 06059088203 · Orange, CA · pop 4,671 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
How risky is Koreatown in Garden Grove for landlords? Census tract 06059088203 scores 5.6/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 62% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 40% of renter households, a high level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,767 a month while the average household earns $87,188 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 61% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Garden Grove and the region
Centroid at 33.7849, -117.9586 · click any tract to drill in
Why Koreatown scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Koreatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Koreatown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.8%Food insecurity
- 12.9%SNAP enrollment
- 8.4%Transit barriers
- 10.1%No health insurance
- 15.5%Frequent mental distress
- 27.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Koreatown
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 8.9/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Garden Grove eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Orange County average of 5.7 and below the California statewide average of 6.1. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is Asian and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 88th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 13.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Garden Grove
Top eight tracts in Garden Grove ranked by composite eviction-risk score.