Compton Eviction Risk: High
Tract 06037542200 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 7,059 · 56% of tract blocks fall in Compton
Census tract 06037542200 covers part of Compton, CA, and scores 9.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 7,059. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Compton and the region
Centroid at 33.8869, -118.1972 · click any tract to drill in
Why Compton scores 9.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Compton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 26%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 32.8%Housing insecurity
- 15.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.9%Food insecurity
- 38.8%SNAP enrollment
- 19.2%Transit barriers
- 23.3%No health insurance
- 20.4%Frequent mental distress
- 42.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Compton
SNAP participation runs 38.8% against 15.2% nationally. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Cost burden runs 64% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 0.8 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.5% 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 B ("Still Desirable"). 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.
Nationally it ranks #3,529 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Compton
Top eight tracts in Compton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.