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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Thai Town Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037190402 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,194 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 9.9/10, tract 06037190402 in the Thai Town area of Los Angeles, CA reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,194 residents. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 47% Stable renters 53% Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units1,184
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate17.0%
Median income$64,679

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 7 tracts In Thai Town
Low
Within parent city
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#437 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within county
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#200 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Very 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 34.1035, -118.3072 · click any tract to drill in

Why Thai Town 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
17.0% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,873 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 Thai Town compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Thai Town risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.99.9This tracttract 190402Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 68

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 Thai Town. 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 Thai Town

100% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $64,679 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. 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 7.1/10, 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 housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,873, close to the Los Angeles average.

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 06037190402

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037190402?

Census tract 06037190402 in the Thai Town 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 06037190402?

Median gross rent is $1,873/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037190402?

17.0% of residents in tract 06037190402 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,194.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037190402?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 58th, household 37th, minority 54th, housing 88th.
Q5

Is tract 06037190402 considered part of Thai Town?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037190402 fall within Thai Town (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037190402 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.1% 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037190402 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037190402 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 06037190402 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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