Friendly Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Whittier

It sits 2.4 points below the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10. At $2,173 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Whittier commands. SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.2/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler. Poverty sits at 3%, 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.