Watts Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Housing insecurity runs 39.1% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $44,107, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $1,438 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 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.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

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