Melrose Hill Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

96% 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. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $59,896, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

SNAP participation runs 25.3% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 27.5% against 17.8% nationally.

At $1,649 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.