Saint James Park Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Annualized rent equals 67% of average household income of $38,098, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. On the high side, economic stress reads 10/10.

99% 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. The poverty rate is 43%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Food insecurity runs 25.4% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $2,139, 11% above the Los Angeles average.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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