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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Harvard Heights Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037221303 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,611 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

06037221303 is a census tract in the Harvard Heights area of Los Angeles, CA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,611. 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 43% Stable renters 43% Owners 14%
Tract context
Occupied units717
Renter share85.9%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate33.5%
Median income$52,560

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
71 th percentile
Rank, 71st percentileLowHigh
#6 of 18 tracts In Harvard Heights
Elevated
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#223 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
High
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#405 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 34.0454, -118.3084 · click any tract to drill in

Why Harvard Heights 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
33.5% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$1,284 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Harvard Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Harvard Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.99.9This tracttract 221303Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

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 Harvard Heights. 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 Harvard Heights

Food insecurity runs 41.4% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. 86% 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.

At $1,284 a month, rents run 34% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.7% against 11.3% nationally. 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. Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 06037221303

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037221303?

Census tract 06037221303 in the Harvard Heights 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 06037221303?

Median gross rent is $1,284/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037221303?

33.5% of residents in tract 06037221303 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,611.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037221303?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 65th, minority 92th, housing 98th.
Q5

Is tract 06037221303 considered part of Harvard Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037221303 fall within Harvard Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037221303 struggle to pay rent?

About 30.9% 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. 14.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037221303 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037221303 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 06037221303 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. 7% 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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