This profile offers a snapshot of the Hurst Fire burn area, highlighting demographics, employment, income, health, and environmental factors to provide insight into the affected communities.

Demography

The data below is intended to summarize key demographic components of the Hurst Fire burn area.

5,599

39%

43%

3.39

Total Population

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

Families with Children

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

Immigrant Population

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

Average Household Size

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

As of 2023, 58% of the population within the burn area identify as Hispanic/Latinx. This is about 10 percentage points higher than the Los Angeles County average.

As of 2023, 10% of the population is above the age of 65. This is about 5 percentage points lower than the Los Angeles County average.

As of 2023, about 26% of residents within the burn area were under the age of 18. This is about 5 percentage points higher than the Los Angeles County average of 21%.

Housing & Real Estate

The data below is intended to summarize the housing and real estate landscape of the Hurst Fire burn area.

$2,704

Median Gross Rent

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

81%

Rent Burden

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

22%

Renter Rate

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

19%

Multifamily Units

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

As of 2023, the median home value within the burn area was $707,600. This is about $80,000 less than the Los Angeles County average.

As of 2023, the housing stock in the burn area was substantially new — 67% of units were built after 1979, compared to the Los Angeles County average of 29%.

Nearly 11% of households within the burn area are overcrowded, meaning they have more than one person per one room of their housing unit.

Health & Environment

The data below is intended to summarize key health and environmental indicators across the Hurst Fire burn area.

99th

Wildfire Percentile

(FEMA, 2023)

12%

All Green Coverage

(NAIP, 2022)

87 y/o

Life Expectancy
(National Center for Health Statistics, 2015)

15%

Existing Tree Canopy

(CURes at LMU, 2016)

Around 12% of the burn area is covered by green vegetation. This is about 8 percentage points higher than the Los Angeles County average of 20%.

About 9% of residents within the burn area suffer from asthma. Wildfire smoke contains a mix of pollutants that can trigger and worsen respiratory symptoms.

The area is in the 99th percentile for wildfire risk, according to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s National Risk Index. This means that this community is more at-risk of wildfires than 99% of all other wildfire-prone communities across the United States.

Employment & Income

The data below is intended to summarize key employment and income indicators across the Hurst Fire burn area.

$121,935

Median Household Income

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

9%

Opportunity Youth

(ACS 5-yr, 2022)

10%

Unemployment Rate

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

16%

Below 100% Poverty Threshold

(ACS 5-yr, 2023)

Within the burn area, 9% of youth ages 16-24 are considered opportunity youth, meaning they are neither working nor in school.

About 2% of households within the impacted area have received some form of cash public assistance in the last 12 months (such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF).

About 20% of households in the affected burn areas are classified as extremely low-income, meaning they earn no more than 30% of the median family income in the Los Angeles Metro Area.

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Authors & Contributors

Devyani Ramamoorthy

Devyani is a first-year Master of Public Policy Student at the Price School of Public Policy, from Bengaluru, India. Before joining Price, she worked with state and local governments to plan Bengaluru’s newest metro rail project and was an Urban Fellow at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. When she’s not asking questions about social protection in the urban Global South, Devyani enjoys playing football, travelling by public transit, and terrace-hopping in Indian cities.

Emily Phillips

Emily (she/her) is the Project Specialist at Neighborhood Data for Social Change. Emily received her Master in Public Policy with a specialization in advocacy communications from the USC Price School in the Spring of 2024. Prior to relocating to Southern California, Emily grew up in Phoenix and then obtained her BA in Political Science and Global Studies from Loyola University Chicago. Her main focus incudes policy advocacy across a variety of policy areas including housing, health, and racial justice. She is passionate about community engagement and social impact.

Other contributors include: Elly Schoen, Cameron Yap & Ben Regev