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Westwood Village Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037980017 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 1,379 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 06037980017 covers part of the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, CA, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 100% Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units24
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate62.9%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 7 tracts In Westwood Village
Low
Within parent city
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#154 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
High
Within county
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#744 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 9,109 tracts In California
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0574, -118.4569 · click any tract to drill in

Why Westwood Village 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
62.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,318 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 Westwood Village compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Westwood Village risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.99.9This tracttract 980017Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 72

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

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.

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 Westwood Village. 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 Westwood Village

The poverty rate is 63%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, economic stress reads 10/10.

This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 39.9% against 17.8% nationally.

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. At $1,318 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037980017

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037980017?

Census tract 06037980017 in the Westwood Village 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.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 06037980017?

Median gross rent is $1,318/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 0% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037980017?

62.9% of residents in tract 06037980017 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,379.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037980017?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 60th, minority 64th, housing 71th.
Q5

Is tract 06037980017 considered part of Westwood Village?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037980017 fall within Westwood Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037980017 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.2% 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. 16.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037980017 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037980017 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.
Q8

Was tract 06037980017 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. 1% 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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