Sawtelle Eviction Risk: High , Santa Monica

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Set annual rent against average income of $74,926 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.8/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 48% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $2,166, 10% below the Santa Monica average.

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 #4,622 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.6/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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