Harvard Heights Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 97% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $55,625, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

At $1,645 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. Food insecurity runs 25.9% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 22.6% against 15.2% nationally.

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. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.