Highlands Eviction Risk: High

Average gross rent is $3,501, 81% above the Los Angeles average of $1,933. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

Running hot is eviction-process difficulty at 9.5/10. The severe-burden share is 29%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.

The voucher gap is 33.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

3.2% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 7.1% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. Among the 161 mapped neighborhoods of Los Angeles, it ranks #140 by risk, the lower third.

At 17% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out. The closest comparables inside the same city are Hollywood Hills and North Hills.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. The 3 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0 points apart at the extremes.

With little internal variation, 8.4/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.