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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,433 of 84,120 nationally

Brentwood Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Los Angeles

Tract 06037701202 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,490 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

06037701202 is a census tract in the Brentwood Park area of Santa Monica, CA. It scores 7.7/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,490. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Risk score
7.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 28% Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,773
Renter share55.3%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate10.2%
Median income$141,495

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 6 tracts In Brentwood Park
Low
Within parent city
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#14 of 19 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within county
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#1,767 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within state
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#4,025 of 9,109 tracts In California
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0339, -118.4898 · click any tract to drill in

Why Brentwood Park scores 7.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Los Angeles
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
10.2% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$3,065 rent vs county FMR
6.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Los Angeles
5.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Los Angeles
5.7

How Brentwood Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Brentwood Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.77.7This tracttract 701202Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 7

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Brentwood Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Brentwood Park

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $3,065 a month, rents run 28% over what the rest of Santa Monica commands.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.5/10. The voucher gap is 16.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

SNAP participation runs 6.2% against 15.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.2% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 1.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 06037701202

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037701202?

Census tract 06037701202 in the Brentwood Park neighborhood scores 7.7/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 06037701202?

Median gross rent is $3,065/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037701202?

10.2% of residents in tract 06037701202 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,490.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037701202?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 11th, household 17th, minority 30th, housing 11th.
Q5

Is tract 06037701202 considered part of Brentwood Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037701202 fall within Brentwood Park (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037701202 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037701202 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037701202 scores 7.7/10, lower than the parent city of Los Angeles at 9.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Los Angeles eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06037701202 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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