Westlake South Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $76,696, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $2,111, 9% above the Los Angeles 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 #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.