Vermont Square Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

SNAP participation runs 52.2% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,122 a month, rents run 42% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Los Angeles. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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.