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Census Tract · Ranked #3,529 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
9.2
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 9% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,478
Renter share25.9%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate25.2%
Median income$71,923

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 23 tracts In Compton
High
Within county
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#1,027 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#1,536 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
National
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#3,529 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Very High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Compton
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
25.2% poverty · this tract
6.3
Supply constraint
$1,694 rent vs county FMR
1.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Compton
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Compton
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Compton
7.9

How Compton compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Compton risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.29.2This tracttract 542200Compton: 7.87.8Comptonparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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

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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037542200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037542200?

Census tract 06037542200 in Compton scores 9.2/10 (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 06037542200?

Median gross rent is $1,694/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037542200?

25.2% of residents in tract 06037542200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,059.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037542200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 77th, minority 99th, housing 70th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 06037542200 struggle to pay rent?

About 32.8% 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. 15.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 06037542200 compare to Compton overall?

Tract 06037542200 scores 9.2/10, higher than the parent city of Compton at 7.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Compton; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 06037542200 historically redlined?

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

Highest-risk tracts in Compton

Top eight tracts in Compton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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