Watts Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Food insecurity runs 44.8% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Housing insecurity runs 35.2% against 14.2% nationally. Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $47,837, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $1,413, 27% below the Los Angeles average.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. 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 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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