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Whitley Heights Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037189702 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,283 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 9.5/10, tract 06037189702 in the Whitley Heights Historic District area of Los Angeles, CA reads high for landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 29% Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,476
Renter share64.0%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate8.7%
Median income$84,286

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Whitley Heights Historic District
Very High
Within parent city
38 th percentile
Rank, 38th percentileLowHigh
#695 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#853 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
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.1125, -118.3410 · click any tract to drill in

Why Whitley Heights Historic District scores 9.5

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
8.7% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,962 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 Whitley Heights Historic District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Whitley Heights Historic District risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.59.5This tracttract 189702Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 52

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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 Whitley Heights Historic District. 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 Whitley Heights Historic District

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Food insecurity runs 10.4% against 17.8% nationally.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.7/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 55% of renters.

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 06037189702

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037189702?

Census tract 06037189702 in the Whitley Heights Historic District neighborhood 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 06037189702?

Median gross rent is $1,962/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037189702?

8.7% of residents in tract 06037189702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,283.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037189702?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 44th, household 20th, minority 33th, housing 87th.
Q5

Is tract 06037189702 considered part of Whitley Heights Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037189702 fall within Whitley Heights Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037189702 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.4% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037189702 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037189702 scores 9.5/10, 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 06037189702 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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.
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