Westlake South Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

At $962 a month, rents run 50% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. SNAP participation runs 55.7% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 57%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, economic stress reads 10/10. This is renter territory: 97% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 68% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $26,640, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.5% 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 9.9/10.

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