South Carthay 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. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Average gross rent is $2,473, 28% above the Los Angeles average. 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. 49% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%.

Food insecurity runs 10.0% against 17.8% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 #5,730 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Los Angeles County average of 8.4 closely. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $128,059.

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