Ocean Park Eviction Risk: High , Santa Monica

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $74,971, 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. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.2/10. 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.

Social vulnerability reads 7.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $2,288, close to the Santa Monica average.

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