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Neighborhood · Ranked #4,119 of 84,120 nationally

Normandie Heights Eviction Risk: High , Pasadena

Tract 06037461502 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 6,245 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 06037461502 sits in the Normandie Heights area of Pasadena eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9/10. Population here is 6,245. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 19% Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,731
Renter share49.4%
SVI overall0.94
Poverty rate18.1%
Median income$72,887

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Normandie Heights
Very High
Within parent city
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#7 of 35 tracts In Pasadena
High
Within county
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#1,114 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#1,820 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Pasadena and the region

Centroid at 34.1752, -118.1462 · click any tract to drill in

Why Normandie Heights scores 9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pasadena
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
18.1% poverty · this tract
4.5
Supply constraint
$1,844 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pasadena
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pasadena
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pasadena
6.4

How Normandie Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Normandie Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.09.0This tracttract 461502Pasadena: 8.18.1Pasadenaparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 94

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Normandie Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Normandie Heights

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10.

SNAP participation runs 27.8% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 61% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

At $1,844 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Pasadena commands. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 22.9% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Los Angeles. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037461502

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037461502?

Census tract 06037461502 in the Normandie Heights neighborhood scores 9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 06037461502?

Median gross rent is $1,844/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037461502?

18.1% of residents in tract 06037461502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,245.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037461502?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 91th, minority 84th, housing 90th.
Q5

Is tract 06037461502 considered part of Normandie Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037461502 fall within Normandie Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037461502 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 10.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037461502 compare to Pasadena overall?

Tract 06037461502 scores 9/10, higher than the parent city of Pasadena at 8.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pasadena eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06037461502 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 4% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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