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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Wilmington Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037980014 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 45 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 06037980014 covers part of the Wilmington area of Los Angeles, CA, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 45. Severe burden reaches 100%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 60% Stable renters 0% Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units10
Renter share60.0%
SVI overall0.22
Poverty rate100.0%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
10 th percentile
Rank, 10th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 11 tracts In Wilmington
Very Low
Within parent city
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#531 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Moderate
Within county
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#742 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 33.7825, -118.2384 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wilmington 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
100.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Wilmington compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wilmington risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.99.9This tracttract 980014Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 22

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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 Wilmington. 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 Wilmington

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 100% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. The poverty rate is 100%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the high side, economic stress reads 10/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.0% against 11.3% nationally.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

60% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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 06037980014

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037980014?

Census tract 06037980014 in the Wilmington 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 poverty rate in tract 06037980014?

100.0% of residents in tract 06037980014 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 45.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037980014?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 22th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 35th, household 22th, minority 90th, housing 7th.
Q4

Is tract 06037980014 considered part of Wilmington?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037980014 fall within Wilmington (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q5

What share of households in tract 06037980014 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.6% 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. 24.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 06037980014 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037980014 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.
Q7

Was tract 06037980014 historically redlined?

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