Sylmar Eviction Risk: High

What pushes the score up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Running hot is eviction-process difficulty at 9.5/10.

On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Average gross rent is $2,584, 34% above the Los Angeles average of $1,933. Severe burden reaches 20%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

That places it #140 of 161 neighborhoods in Los Angeles. At 22% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Hollywood Hills and North Hills. Social vulnerability runs high at 7.5/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Its 2 tracts score within 0 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $118,673.

With little internal variation, 8.4/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.