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Neighborhood · Ranked #2,339 of 84,120 nationally

Van Ness Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037234800 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,424 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 9.7/10, tract 06037234800 in the Van Ness area of Los Angeles, CA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,424. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
9.7
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16% Stable renters 20% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,067
Renter share35.7%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate7.6%
Median income$71,397

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
14 th percentile
Rank, 14th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 8 tracts In Van Ness
Very Low
Within parent city
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#650 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Moderate
Within county
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#801 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#1,125 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 33.9818, -118.3221 · click any tract to drill in

Why Van Ness scores 9.7

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
7.6% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,768 rent vs county FMR
1.7
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 Van Ness compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Van Ness risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.79.7This tracttract 234800Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 80

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 Van Ness. 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 Van Ness

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Cost burden runs 45% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. It sits 1.3 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

SNAP participation runs 25.0% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 23.8% against 14.2% nationally.

At $1,768 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. 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 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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 06037234800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037234800?

Census tract 06037234800 in the Van Ness neighborhood scores 9.7/10 (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 06037234800?

Median gross rent is $1,768/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037234800?

7.6% of residents in tract 06037234800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,424.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037234800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 59th, minority 95th, housing 69th.
Q5

Is tract 06037234800 considered part of Van Ness?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037234800 fall within Van Ness (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037234800 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.8% 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. 10.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037234800 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037234800 scores 9.7/10, 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 06037234800 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. 25% 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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