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Neighborhood · Ranked #3,797 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
9.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39% Stable renters 35% Owners 26%
Tract context
Occupied units1,025
Renter share74.0%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate18.4%
Median income$62,930

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#15 of 22 tracts In Walnut Park
Low
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 21 tracts In Huntington Park
High
Within county
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#1,069 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#1,681 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
Geographic context

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-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
18.4% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,582 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: 9.19.1This tracttract 535603Huntington Park: 9.19.1Huntington Parkparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

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 9.5/10. 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037535603

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037535603?

Census tract 06037535603 in the Walnut Park neighborhood scores 9.1/10 (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 06037535603?

Median gross rent is $1,582/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037535603?

18.4% of residents in tract 06037535603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,841.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037535603?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 86th, minority 99th, housing 83th.
Q5

Is tract 06037535603 considered part of Walnut Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037535603 fall within Walnut Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037535603 struggle to pay rent?

About 32.5% 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. 14.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037535603 compare to Huntington Park overall?

Tract 06037535603 scores 9.1/10, right in line with 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 06037535603 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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