Florence Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. At $1,525 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands.

Adults with no health insurance runs 23.0% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.4% 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.