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Westlake South Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037209520 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,569 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 06037209520 covers part of the Westlake South area of Los Angeles, CA, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,569. Severe burden reaches 41%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

9.9

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 50% Stable renters 47% Owners 3%

Tract context

Occupied units925

Renter share97.8%

SVI overall0.99

Poverty rate31.3%

Median income$43,266

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0506, -118.2770 · click any tract to drill in

Why Westlake South scores 9.9

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

31.3% poverty · this tract

7.8

Supply constraint

$1,227 rent vs county FMR

1.0

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 Westlake South compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 99

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

100%Socioeconomic
88%Household composition
96%Racial/ethnic minority
93%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
100%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

Within Westlake South. 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.

33.2%Housing insecurity
16.0%Utility-shutoff threat
43.5%Food insecurity
41.4%SNAP enrollment
20.6%Transit barriers
26.1%No health insurance
20.3%Frequent mental distress
42.6%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Westlake South

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. This is renter territory: 98% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,227, 37% below the Los Angeles average.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 33.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $43,266, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Adults with no health insurance runs 26.1% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037209520

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037209520?

Census tract 06037209520 in the Westlake South neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 06037209520?

Median gross rent is $1,227/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037209520?

31.3% of residents in tract 06037209520 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,569.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037209520?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 88th, minority 96th, housing 93th.

Is tract 06037209520 considered part of Westlake South?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037209520 fall within Westlake South (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037209520 struggle to pay rent?

About 33.2% 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. 16.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037209520 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037209520 scores 9.9/10, 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.

Was tract 06037209520 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. 100% 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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