Athens Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 75% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Housing insecurity runs 37.7% against 14.2% nationally.

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $43,173 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Average gross rent is $1,403, 27% below the Los Angeles average. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

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 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.