Watts Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.

Food insecurity runs 39.9% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.5/10.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Average gross rent is $1,697, 12% above the Florence-Graham average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. Nationally it ranks #2,210 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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