Sawtelle Japantown Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

At $3,501 a month, rents run 81% over what the rest of Los Angeles commands. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

The voucher gap is 33.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $117,738, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 6.6% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.2% against 11.3% 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. Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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