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Census Tract · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally

Lawndale Eviction Risk: High

Tract 06037603801 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 4,827

Tract 06037603801 sits in Lawndale, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.5/10. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 44% Stable renters 21% Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units1,522
Renter share65.0%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate18.6%
Median income$75,417

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 8 tracts In Lawndale
Very High
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#877 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#1,235 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
National
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#2,657 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lawndale and the region

Centroid at 33.8985, -118.3481 · click any tract to drill in

Why Lawndale scores 9.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lawndale
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
18.6% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,709 rent vs county FMR
1.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lawndale
7.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lawndale
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lawndale
6.8

How Lawndale compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Lawndale risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.59.5This tracttract 603801Lawndale: 8.68.6Lawndaleparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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

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.

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

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 Lawndale

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 68% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10.

This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 30.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 25.4% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $1,709, 12% below the Lawndale average. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037603801

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037603801?

Census tract 06037603801 in Lawndale scores 9.5/10 (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 06037603801?

Median gross rent is $1,709/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037603801?

18.6% of residents in tract 06037603801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,827.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037603801?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 41th, minority 88th, housing 98th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 06037603801 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. 11.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 06037603801 compare to Lawndale overall?

Tract 06037603801 scores 9.5/10, higher than the parent city of Lawndale at 8.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lawndale; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 06037603801 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. 88% 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 Lawndale

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

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