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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Florence Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037239502 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,624 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 06037239502 sits in the Florence area of Los Angeles eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.9/10. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42% Stable renters 19% Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units801
Renter share61.3%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate17.5%
Median income$60,350

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 12 tracts In Florence
Low
Within parent city
69 th percentile
Rank, 69th percentileLowHigh
#348 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within county
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#524 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 9,109 tracts In California
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 33.9693, -118.2630 · click any tract to drill in

Why Florence scores 9.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
17.5% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,666 rent vs county FMR
1.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Los Angeles
10.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
9.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.0

How Florence compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Florence risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.99.9This tracttract 239502Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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 Florence. 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 Florence

Food insecurity runs 44.3% against 17.8% nationally. Cost burden runs 68% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $60,350 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.1% against 11.3% nationally.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Average gross rent is $1,666, 14% below the Los Angeles 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. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037239502

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037239502?

Census tract 06037239502 in the Florence neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High 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 06037239502?

Median gross rent is $1,666/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037239502?

17.5% of residents in tract 06037239502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,624.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037239502?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 74th, minority 99th, housing 82th.
Q5

Is tract 06037239502 considered part of Florence?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037239502 fall within Florence (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037239502 struggle to pay rent?

About 35.5% 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. 17.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037239502 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037239502 scores 9.9/10, right in line with 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 06037239502 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. 2% 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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