Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally

Orange Heights Eviction Risk: High , Pasadena

Tract 06037462202 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,951 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 06037462202 covers part of the Orange Heights area of Pasadena, CA, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,951 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

Risk score

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 40% Stable renters 44% Owners 16%

Tract context

Occupied units1,793

Renter share84.0%

SVI overall0.50

Poverty rate15.7%

Median income$103,618

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Pasadena and the region

Centroid at 34.1489, -118.1369 · click any tract to drill in

Why Orange Heights scores 8

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

15.7% poverty · this tract

3.9

Supply constraint

$2,726 rent vs county FMR

5.4

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 Orange Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 50

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

45%Socioeconomic
7%Household composition
75%Racial/ethnic minority
82%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
38%Grade C
0%Grade D · redlined

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 Orange 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.

10.4%Housing insecurity
4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
11.1%Food insecurity
9.5%SNAP enrollment
6.6%Transit barriers
4.6%No health insurance
15.6%Frequent mental distress
21.7%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Orange Heights

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Average gross rent is $2,726, 20% above the Pasadena average. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.2/10. 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. That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.5/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Los Angeles County average of 8.4 closely.

Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $103,618.

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 06037462202

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037462202?

Census tract 06037462202 in the Orange Heights neighborhood scores 8/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 06037462202?

Median gross rent is $2,726/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037462202?

15.7% of residents in tract 06037462202 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,951.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037462202?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 50th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 45th, household 7th, minority 75th, housing 82th.

Is tract 06037462202 considered part of Orange Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037462202 fall within Orange Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037462202 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.4% 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. 4.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037462202 compare to Pasadena overall?

Tract 06037462202 scores 8/10, right in line with 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.

Was tract 06037462202 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. 0% 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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