New Chinatown Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

86% 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, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 33.8% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 30.7% against 15.2% nationally.

At $1,415 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.