West Hills Eviction Risk: High

What pushes the score up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Severe burden reaches 31%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 9.5/10. The voucher gap is 33.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Against a Los Angeles baseline of 35.0%, 46% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with.

3.8% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Food insecurity affects 9.5% of adults, 8.3 points below the national rate.

That places it #123 of 161 neighborhoods in Los Angeles. At 21% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

One tract means one number: 8.7/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.