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Neighborhood · Ranked #10,727 of 84,120 nationally

Walnut Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Huntington Park

Tract 06037534700 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 4,448 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

06037534700 is a census tract in the Walnut Park area of Walnut Park, CA. It scores 7.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,448 residents. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 16% Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units986
Renter share32.8%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate8.8%
Median income$87,756

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#22 of 22 tracts In Walnut Park
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Huntington Park
Very Low
Within county
26 th percentile
Rank, 26th percentileLowHigh
#1,845 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within state
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#4,555 of 9,109 tracts In California
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Huntington Park and the region

Centroid at 33.9683, -118.2148 · click any tract to drill in

Why Walnut Park scores 7.4

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
8.8% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,585 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Huntington Park
8.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Huntington Park
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Huntington Park
7.8

How Walnut Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Walnut Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.47.4This tracttract 534700Huntington Park: 9.19.1Huntington Parkparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 85

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10.

Housing insecurity runs 25.4% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

SNAP participation runs 24.5% against 15.2% nationally. 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. Nationally it ranks #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 53% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $1,585, close to the Walnut Park average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $87,756.

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 06037534700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037534700?

Census tract 06037534700 in the Walnut Park neighborhood scores 7.4/10 (Elevated 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 06037534700?

Median gross rent is $1,585/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037534700?

8.8% of residents in tract 06037534700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,448.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037534700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 90th, minority 98th, housing 36th.
Q5

Is tract 06037534700 considered part of Walnut Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037534700 fall within Walnut Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037534700 struggle to pay rent?

About 25.4% 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. 10.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037534700 compare to Huntington Park overall?

Tract 06037534700 scores 7.4/10, 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 06037534700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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