Westlake South Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Average gross rent is $945, 51% below the Los Angeles average. 31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

97% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $31,806 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Housing insecurity runs 31.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Adults with no health insurance runs 25.7% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.