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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Florence Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037240020 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 5,286 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

Tract 06037240020 sits in the Florence area of Los Angeles eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.9/10. It is home to 5,286 residents. The severe-burden share is 57%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45% Stable renters 13% Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,307
Renter share57.6%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate23.8%
Median income$58,030

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 12 tracts In Florence
Very Low
Within parent city
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#20 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Very High
Within county
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#532 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 33.9543, -118.2639 · 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
23.8% poverty · this tract
6.0
Supply constraint
$1,816 rent vs county FMR
1.9
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 240020Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 99

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

Cost burden runs 78% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

SNAP participation runs 45.3% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 36.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $58,030, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

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. 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 9.9/10, 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.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 06037240020

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037240020?

Census tract 06037240020 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 06037240020?

Median gross rent is $1,816/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 78% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037240020?

23.8% of residents in tract 06037240020 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,286.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037240020?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 92th, minority 99th, housing 95th.
Q5

Is tract 06037240020 considered part of Florence?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037240020 fall within Florence (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037240020 struggle to pay rent?

About 36.6% 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. 17.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037240020 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037240020 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 06037240020 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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