Within neighborhood
29
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally
Watts Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles
Tract 06037540400 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 1,907 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 06037540400 covers part of the Watts area of Willowbrook, CA, and scores 9.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,907. Severe burden reaches 40%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units458
Renter share45.0%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate21.1%
Median income$82,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
87
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region
Centroid at 33.9327, -118.2282 · click any tract to drill in
Why Watts scores 9.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Los Angeles
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
21.1% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$1,155 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Los Angeles
8.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Los Angeles
7.9
How Watts compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 25%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 41%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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Watts. 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.
- 31.0%Housing insecurity
- 13.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.4%Food insecurity
- 32.2%SNAP enrollment
- 17.3%Transit barriers
- 24.5%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 39.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Watts
What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Food insecurity runs 37.4% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
SNAP participation runs 32.2% against 15.2% nationally. 64% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%.
Average gross rent is $1,155, 26% below the Willowbrook average. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
It sits 1.1 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. 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. On the national scale it lands near the 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.5/10.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 06037540400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037540400?
Census tract 06037540400 in the Watts neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (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 06037540400?
Median gross rent is $1,155/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 06037540400?
21.1% of residents in tract 06037540400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,907.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 06037540400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 88th, minority 98th, housing 25th.
Q5
Is tract 06037540400 considered part of Watts?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037540400 fall within Watts (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
What share of households in tract 06037540400 struggle to pay rent?
About 31.0% 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. 13.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 06037540400 compare to Los Angeles overall?
Tract 06037540400 scores 9.5/10, lower than 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 06037540400 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. 41% 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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