Ocean Park Eviction Risk: High , Santa Monica
Tract 06037273300 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,024 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
06037273300 is a census tract in the Ocean Park area of Los Angeles, CA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,024 residents. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Santa Monica and the region
Centroid at 33.9956, -118.4722 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ocean Park scores 9.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ocean Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 14%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade C
- 94%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 Ocean 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.
- 13.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 13.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 6.6%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 25.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Ocean Park
Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.
77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. At $2,408 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Los Angeles commands. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.
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. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.8/10.
Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
57% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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