Westgate Heights Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles
Tract 06037262302 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,839 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 06037262302 covers part of the Westgate Heights area of Los Angeles, CA, and scores 8.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,839. Cost burden runs 25% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region
Centroid at 34.0751, -118.4768 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westgate Heights scores 8.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westgate Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 38%Household composition
- 29%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 24%Grade A
- 8%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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.8%Housing insecurity
- 3.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.7%Food insecurity
- 5.1%SNAP enrollment
- 4.0%Transit barriers
- 2.9%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 23.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westgate Heights
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Average gross rent is $2,431, 26% above the Los Angeles average.
The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. SNAP participation runs 5.1% against 15.2% nationally.
Adults with no health insurance runs 2.9% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $191,316, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least 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.
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