Boyle Heights Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles
Tract 06037206050 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,317 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 06037206050 covers part of the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, CA, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,317 residents. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region
Centroid at 34.0326, -118.2243 · click any tract to drill in
Why Boyle Heights scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Boyle Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 100%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 71%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Boyle Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 20.4%Housing insecurity
- 8.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.6%Food insecurity
- 21.2%SNAP enrollment
- 12.3%Transit barriers
- 19.9%No health insurance
- 15.6%Frequent mental distress
- 41.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Boyle Heights
At $1,099 a month, rents run 43% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. This is renter territory: 97% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10.
Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Cost burden runs 43% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.
The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Food insecurity runs 26.6% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.9% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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