Census Tract · Ranked #9,927 of 84,120 nationally

Whittier Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 06037502004 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 4,061

Tract 06037502004 sits in Whittier, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.6/10. It is home to 4,061 residents. 36% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score

7.6

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 16% Owners 57%

Tract context

Occupied units941

Renter share42.7%

SVI overall0.77

Poverty rate10.9%

Median income$72,344

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Whittier and the region

Centroid at 33.9609, -118.0478 · click any tract to drill in

Why Whittier scores 7.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Whittier

7.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.2

State political climate

California legislature & governorship

6.8

Economic stress

10.9% poverty · this tract

2.7

Supply constraint

$2,007 rent vs county FMR

2.6

Rent control risk

Inherited from Whittier

7.9

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

6.3

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Whittier

8.3

Housing court bias

Inherited from Whittier

6.3

How Whittier compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 77

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

86%Socioeconomic
35%Household composition
94%Racial/ethnic minority
61%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
0%Grade C
7%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

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.

25.4%Housing insecurity
10.9%Utility-shutoff threat
30.4%Food insecurity
26.0%SNAP enrollment
14.1%Transit barriers
19.7%No health insurance
17.6%Frequent mental distress
36.4%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Whittier

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.3/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $72,344, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Cost burden runs 62% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10.

Food insecurity runs 30.4% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 25.4% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

Nationally it ranks #9,927 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037502004

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037502004?

Census tract 06037502004 in Whittier scores 7.6/10 (Elevated 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 06037502004?

Median gross rent is $2,007/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037502004?

10.9% of residents in tract 06037502004 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,061.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037502004?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 35th, minority 94th, housing 61th.

What share of households in tract 06037502004 struggle to pay rent?

About 25.4% 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. 10.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037502004 compare to Whittier overall?

Tract 06037502004 scores 7.6/10, right in line with the parent city of Whittier at 7.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Whittier; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 06037502004 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Whittier

Top eight tracts in Whittier ranked by composite eviction-risk score.