Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone Eviction Risk: High

What pushes the score up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. The severe-burden share is 34%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. This is a renter market: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 9.5/10. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

Set annual rent against average household income of $57,588 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 23.6% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Food insecurity affects 30.5% of adults, 12.7 points above the national rate. At $1,710 a month, rents sit 12% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands.

That places it #1 of 161 neighborhoods in Los Angeles. For a like-for-like read, Vermont Square and Little Bangladesh score within a fraction of it.

The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.