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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Ramona Gardens Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037203602 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 2,074 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

Tract 06037203602 sits in the Ramona Gardens area of Los Angeles eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.9/10. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36% Stable renters 35% Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units555
Renter share71.4%
SVI overall0.86
Poverty rate24.4%
Median income$74,536

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 13 tracts In Ramona Gardens
Elevated
Within parent city
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#509 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Moderate
Within county
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#261 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 9,109 tracts In California
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0508, -118.2115 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ramona Gardens 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
24.4% poverty · this tract
6.1
Supply constraint
$1,848 rent vs county FMR
2.0
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 Ramona Gardens compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ramona Gardens risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.99.9This tracttract 203602Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 86

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

Within Ramona Gardens. 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 Ramona Gardens

Food insecurity runs 40.4% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

Housing insecurity runs 31.9% against 14.2% nationally. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.7/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 51% of renters.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 06037203602

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037203602?

Census tract 06037203602 in the Ramona Gardens 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.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 06037203602?

Median gross rent is $1,848/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037203602?

24.4% of residents in tract 06037203602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,074.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037203602?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 86th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 70th, minority 97th, housing 56th.
Q5

Is tract 06037203602 considered part of Ramona Gardens?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037203602 fall within Ramona Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037203602 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.9% 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. 13.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037203602 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037203602 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.
Q8

Was tract 06037203602 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. 100% 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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