Sawtelle Japantown Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

At $2,729 a month, rents run 41% over what the rest of Los Angeles commands. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Food insecurity runs 6.8% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% 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.

That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 2.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.0 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.

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