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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 21% Owners 72%
Tract context
Occupied units1,334
Renter share27.7%
SVI overall0.11
Poverty rate8.2%
Median income$191,316

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Westgate Heights
Moderate
Within parent city
1 th percentile
Rank, 1st percentileLowHigh
#1,104 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Very Low
Within county
41 th percentile
Rank, 41st percentileLowHigh
#1,470 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Moderate
Within state
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#2,744 of 9,109 tracts In California
Elevated
Geographic context

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-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
8.2% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$2,431 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 Westgate Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Westgate Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.48.4This tracttract 262302Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 11

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037262302

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037262302?

Census tract 06037262302 in the Westgate Heights neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 06037262302?

Median gross rent is $2,431/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037262302?

8.2% of residents in tract 06037262302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,839.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037262302?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 11th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 2th, household 38th, minority 29th, housing 30th.
Q5

Is tract 06037262302 considered part of Westgate Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037262302 fall within Westgate Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037262302 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.8% 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. 3.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037262302 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037262302 scores 8.4/10, lower than 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 06037262302 historically redlined?

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