Walnut Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Huntington Park
Tract 06037535603 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,841 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Tract 06037535603 covers the Walnut Park area of Huntington Park in California. Home to 3,841 residents, it scores 6.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 86% of US census tracts.
53% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 32% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,582 monthly, set against $62,930 in average yearly household income, roughly 30% of income at the averages. Renters make up 74% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Huntington Park and the region
Centroid at 33.9565, -118.2236 · click any tract to drill in
Why Walnut Park scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Walnut Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 64%Grade B
- 0%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Walnut Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 32.5%Housing insecurity
- 14.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.4%Food insecurity
- 35.8%SNAP enrollment
- 18.6%Transit barriers
- 26.6%No health insurance
- 20.1%Frequent mental distress
- 40.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Walnut Park
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Huntington Park, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Los Angeles County average of 6.5 and above the California statewide average of 6.1. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 97th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 32.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 14.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in Huntington Park
Top eight tracts in Huntington Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.