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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Walnut Park Eviction Risk: High , Huntington Park

Tract 06037535502 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 5,345 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 06037535502 sits in the Walnut Park area of South Gate, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.4/10. It is home to 5,345 residents. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33% Stable renters 37% Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units1,334
Renter share69.6%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate14.8%
Median income$74,350

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#16 of 22 tracts In Walnut Park
Low
Within parent city
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 21 tracts In Huntington Park
Elevated
Within county
38 th percentile
Rank, 38th percentileLowHigh
#1,541 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within state
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#2,744 of 9,109 tracts In California
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Huntington Park and the region

Centroid at 33.9615, -118.2153 · click any tract to drill in

Why Walnut Park scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Huntington Park
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
14.8% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,424 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Huntington Park
7.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Huntington Park
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Huntington Park
7.0

How Walnut Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Walnut Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.48.4This tracttract 535502Huntington Park: 9.19.1Huntington Parkparent 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: 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 Walnut Park. 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 Walnut Park

Food insecurity runs 39.4% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. 70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Adults with no health insurance runs 26.6% against 11.3% nationally. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. 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. That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Los Angeles County average of 8.4 closely.

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 06037535502

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037535502?

Census tract 06037535502 in the Walnut Park neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 06037535502?

Median gross rent is $1,424/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037535502?

14.8% of residents in tract 06037535502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,345.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037535502?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 18th, minority 97th, housing 95th.
Q5

Is tract 06037535502 considered part of Walnut Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037535502 fall within Walnut Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037535502 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.4% 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. 13.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037535502 compare to Huntington Park overall?

Tract 06037535502 scores 8.4/10, lower than the parent city of Huntington Park at 9.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Huntington Park; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06037535502 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Huntington Park

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

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