Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Little Armenia Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037191201 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 5,729 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 9.9/10, tract 06037191201 in the Little Armenia area of Los Angeles, CA reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,729 residents. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

9.9

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 58% Stable renters 37% Owners 5%

Tract context

Occupied units1,656

Renter share95.5%

SVI overall0.93

Poverty rate25.7%

Median income$43,651

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0986, -118.2962 · click any tract to drill in

Why Little Armenia 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

25.7% poverty · this tract

6.4

Supply constraint

$1,479 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 Little Armenia compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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

96%Socioeconomic
43%Household composition
63%Racial/ethnic minority
98%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
100%Grade C
0%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Little Armenia. 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.

18.7%Housing insecurity
9.6%Utility-shutoff threat
24.9%Food insecurity
26.7%SNAP enrollment
12.4%Transit barriers
11.6%No health insurance
19.6%Frequent mental distress
37.9%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Little Armenia

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $43,651, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,479 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands.

Cost burden runs 61% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. SNAP participation runs 26.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% 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. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.4/10.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 06037191201

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037191201?

Census tract 06037191201 in the Little Armenia 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.

What is the average rent in tract 06037191201?

Median gross rent is $1,479/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037191201?

25.7% of residents in tract 06037191201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,729.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037191201?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 43th, minority 63th, housing 98th.

Is tract 06037191201 considered part of Little Armenia?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037191201 fall within Little Armenia (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037191201 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.7% 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. 9.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037191201 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037191201 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.

Was tract 06037191201 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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