Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037191720 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,492 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

06037191720 is a census tract in the Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone area of Los Angeles, CA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

9.9

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 48% Stable renters 44% Owners 8%

Tract context

Occupied units1,402

Renter share91.5%

SVI overall0.84

Poverty rate15.6%

Median income$48,750

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0888, -118.3124 · click any tract to drill in

Why Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone scores 9.9

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

15.6% poverty · this tract

3.9

Supply constraint

$1,322 rent vs county FMR

1.0

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 Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

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

99%Socioeconomic
11%Household composition
91%Racial/ethnic minority
77%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
99%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. 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.

26.8%Housing insecurity
11.8%Utility-shutoff threat
34.6%Food insecurity
31.3%SNAP enrollment
16.0%Transit barriers
21.3%No health insurance
19.4%Frequent mental distress
39.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 92% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,322, 32% below the Los Angeles average. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $48,750, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 1.5 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4.

Housing insecurity runs 26.8% against 14.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.3% against 11.3% nationally.

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 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.5/10.

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 06037191720

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037191720?

Census tract 06037191720 in the Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 06037191720?

Median gross rent is $1,322/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037191720?

15.6% of residents in tract 06037191720 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,492.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037191720?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 11th, minority 91th, housing 77th.

Is tract 06037191720 considered part of Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037191720 fall within Melrose Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037191720 struggle to pay rent?

About 26.8% 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. 11.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037191720 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037191720 scores 9.9/10, right in line with 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.

Was tract 06037191720 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. 99% 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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