Athens Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

76% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Running hot, 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 $49,036 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. At $1,492 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands.

Adults with no health insurance runs 18.5% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.9% 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. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.