Sherman Oaks Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Average gross rent is $3,501, 81% above the Los Angeles average. 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.

The voucher gap is 33.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Housing insecurity runs 5.5% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $250,001, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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