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

East Los Angeles Eviction Risk: High

Tract 06037531603 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,665 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

With a score of 8.4/10, tract 06037531603 in the East Los Angeles area of East Los Angeles, CA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,665. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.

Risk score

8.4

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 29% Stable renters 38% Owners 33%

Tract context

Occupied units935

Renter share67.3%

SVI overall0.77

Poverty rate13.6%

Median income$68,721

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across East Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0298, -118.1615 · click any tract to drill in

Why East Los Angeles scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from East Los Angeles

7.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.2

State political climate

California legislature & governorship

6.8

Economic stress

13.6% poverty · this tract

3.4

Supply constraint

$1,336 rent vs county FMR

1.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from East Los Angeles

6.4

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

6.7

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from East Los Angeles

9.7

Housing court bias

Inherited from East Los Angeles

6.8

How East Los Angeles compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 77

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

90%Socioeconomic
65%Household composition
97%Racial/ethnic minority
33%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
10%Grade C
90%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 East Los Angeles. 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.

29.9%Housing insecurity
12.4%Utility-shutoff threat
37.3%Food insecurity
31.5%SNAP enrollment
17.0%Transit barriers
25.7%No health insurance
18.9%Frequent mental distress
41.1%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in East Los Angeles

Food insecurity runs 37.3% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 43% of renters here are cost-burdened.

SNAP participation runs 31.5% against 15.2% nationally. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

At $1,336 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of East Los Angeles commands. 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 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Los Angeles County average of 8.4 closely. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $68,721.

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 06037531603

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037531603?

Census tract 06037531603 in the East Los Angeles 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.

What is the average rent in tract 06037531603?

Median gross rent is $1,336/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037531603?

13.6% of residents in tract 06037531603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,665.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037531603?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 65th, minority 97th, housing 33th.

Is tract 06037531603 considered part of East Los Angeles?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037531603 fall within East Los Angeles (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037531603 struggle to pay rent?

About 29.9% 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. 12.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037531603 compare to East Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037531603 scores 8.4/10, higher than the parent city of East Los Angeles at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from East Los Angeles eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 06037531603 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. 90% 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

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