Watts Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 73% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 61% of average household income of $31,013, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Housing insecurity runs 37.9% against 14.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

67% 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. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.4/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.3% 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 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.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.