Ocean Park Eviction Risk: High , Santa Monica

79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.2/10.

At $2,123 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Santa Monica commands. 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. Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 51% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $91,750.

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