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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,153 of 84,120 nationally

Silver Lake Heights Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037187300 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,678 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 06037187300 covers part of the Silver Lake Heights area of Los Angeles, CA, and scores 8.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

Risk score
8.6
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 32% Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,642
Renter share64.0%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate7.8%
Median income$115,000

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
38 th percentile
Rank, 38th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 9 tracts In Silver Lake Heights
Low
Within parent city
18 th percentile
Rank, 18th percentileLowHigh
#920 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Very Low
Within county
49 th percentile
Rank, 49th percentileLowHigh
#1,283 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Moderate
Within state
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#2,397 of 9,109 tracts In California
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.1016, -118.2567 · click any tract to drill in

Why Silver Lake Heights scores 8.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
7.8% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$2,257 rent vs county FMR
3.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Los Angeles
10.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
9.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.0

How Silver Lake Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Silver Lake Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.68.6This tracttract 187300Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 32

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 Silver Lake Heights. 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 Silver Lake Heights

Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

At $2,257 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Los Angeles commands. 50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Los Angeles County average of 53.8%.

Food insecurity runs 10.6% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.

Nationally it ranks #5,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Los Angeles County average of 8.4 closely.

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 06037187300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037187300?

Census tract 06037187300 in the Silver Lake Heights neighborhood scores 8.6/10 (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 06037187300?

Median gross rent is $2,257/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037187300?

7.8% of residents in tract 06037187300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,678.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037187300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 6th, minority 61th, housing 37th.
Q5

Is tract 06037187300 considered part of Silver Lake Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037187300 fall within Silver Lake Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037187300 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.9% 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. 4.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037187300 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037187300 scores 8.6/10, lower than the parent city of Los Angeles at 9.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Los Angeles eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06037187300 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. 41% 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.
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