Compton Eviction Risk: High
Tract 06037542602 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 5,430
Tract 06037542602 sits in Compton, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.7/10. Population here is 5,430. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Compton and the region
Centroid at 33.8996, -118.2263 · click any tract to drill in
Why Compton scores 8.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Compton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 44%Grade C
- 14%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.
- 29.7%Housing insecurity
- 13.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.7%Food insecurity
- 32.4%SNAP enrollment
- 16.8%Transit barriers
- 20.3%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 38.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Compton
Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.
Housing insecurity runs 29.7% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.
Cost burden runs 59% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. At $1,383 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Compton commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 20.3% 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. Nationally it ranks #4,888 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Compton
Top eight tracts in Compton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.