Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Boyle Heights Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037204600 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 4,135 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

06037204600 is a census tract in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, CA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,135 residents. Severe burden reaches 48%. 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 28% Owners 24%

Tract context

Occupied units1,112

Renter share76.9%

SVI overall0.97

Poverty rate20.3%

Median income$52,750

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0366, -118.2158 · click any tract to drill in

Why Boyle Heights 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

20.3% poverty · this tract

5.1

Supply constraint

$1,653 rent vs county FMR

1.3

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 Boyle Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

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

99%Socioeconomic
79%Household composition
95%Racial/ethnic minority
86%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
84%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 Boyle 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.

28.2%Housing insecurity
12.2%Utility-shutoff threat
35.5%Food insecurity
31.2%SNAP enrollment
16.3%Transit barriers
23.5%No health insurance
18.3%Frequent mental distress
40.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Boyle Heights

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $52,750 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 35.5% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 31.2% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 63% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $1,653, 14% below the Los Angeles average. 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.7/10.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037204600

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037204600?

Census tract 06037204600 in the Boyle Heights 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 06037204600?

Median gross rent is $1,653/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037204600?

20.3% of residents in tract 06037204600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,135.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037204600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 79th, minority 95th, housing 86th.

Is tract 06037204600 considered part of Boyle Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037204600 fall within Boyle Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037204600 struggle to pay rent?

About 28.2% 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. 12.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037204600 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037204600 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 06037204600 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. 84% 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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