Walnut Park Eviction Risk: High , Huntington Park
Tract 06037535603 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,841 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 06037535603 covers part of the Walnut Park area of South Gate, CA, and scores 9.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,841. The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Huntington Park and the region
Centroid at 33.9565, -118.2236 · click any tract to drill in
Why Walnut Park scores 9.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Walnut Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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
- 64%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
Within Walnut Park. 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.
- 32.5%Housing insecurity
- 14.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.4%Food insecurity
- 35.8%SNAP enrollment
- 18.6%Transit barriers
- 26.6%No health insurance
- 20.1%Frequent mental distress
- 40.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Walnut Park
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. SNAP participation runs 35.8% against 15.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Housing insecurity runs 32.5% against 14.2% nationally. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10.
The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.6 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 Huntington Park
Top eight tracts in Huntington Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.