Sierra Madre Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.9 points. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 6.6% against 17.8% nationally.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 24% 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.9/10.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $186,213, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points cooler.

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.