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Census Tract · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally

Lawndale Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 06037603901 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,685

Tract 06037603901 sits in Lawndale, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.2/10. Cost burden runs 32% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16% Stable renters 33% Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,290
Renter share49.3%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$113,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 8 tracts In Lawndale
Very Low
Within county
24 th percentile
Rank, 24th percentileLowHigh
#1,895 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within state
46 th percentile
Rank, 46th percentileLowHigh
#4,881 of 9,109 tracts In California
Moderate
National
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#11,988 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lawndale and the region

Centroid at 33.8981, -118.3586 · click any tract to drill in

Why Lawndale scores 7.2

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
4.9% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,889 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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: 7.27.2This tracttract 603901Lawndale: 8.68.6Lawndaleparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 70

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

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

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. That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.3/10.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent is $1,889, close to the Lawndale average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $113,500. 49% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037603901

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037603901?

Census tract 06037603901 in Lawndale scores 7.2/10 (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 06037603901?

Median gross rent is $1,889/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037603901?

4.9% of residents in tract 06037603901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,685.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037603901?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 53th, household 36th, minority 87th, housing 89th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 06037603901 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.3% 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. 7.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 06037603901 compare to Lawndale overall?

Tract 06037603901 scores 7.2/10, lower 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 06037603901 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. 80% 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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