Watts Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 28.1% against 14.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.7% against 11.3% nationally.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. 49% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%.

Average gross rent is $1,684, 10% above the South Gate average. 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. Nationally it ranks #5,730 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.2/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Los Angeles County average of 8.4 closely. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $71,398.

35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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