Old Pasadena Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 73% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.1/10.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.7 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally.

Average gross rent is $2,536, 12% above the Pasadena average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% 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 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 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 11% 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.

Social vulnerability reads 3.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, 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.