Highland Park Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

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

Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 0.9 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $2,032, close to the Los Angeles average.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $108,256. 55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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