Downtown Santa Monica Eviction Risk: Elevated

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.6/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.5/10.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.