Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Harvard Heights Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037221402 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,063 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

06037221402 is a census tract in the Harvard Heights area of Los Angeles, CA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,063 residents. Severe burden reaches 36%. 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 42% Stable renters 37% Owners 21%

Tract context

Occupied units967

Renter share78.7%

SVI overall0.98

Poverty rate22.1%

Median income$52,313

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0384, -118.3090 · click any tract to drill in

Why Harvard 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

22.1% poverty · this tract

5.5

Supply constraint

$1,234 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 Harvard Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 98

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

97%Socioeconomic
79%Household composition
91%Racial/ethnic minority
96%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
97%Grade C
3%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 Harvard 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.

21.9%Housing insecurity
10.4%Utility-shutoff threat
28.1%Food insecurity
26.4%SNAP enrollment
13.3%Transit barriers
15.0%No health insurance
17.0%Frequent mental distress
37.5%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Harvard Heights

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

At $1,234 a month, rents run 36% under what the rest of Los Angeles commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 79% 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 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 28.1% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 21.9% against 14.2% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 06037221402

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037221402?

Census tract 06037221402 in the Harvard 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 06037221402?

Median gross rent is $1,234/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037221402?

22.1% of residents in tract 06037221402 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,063.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037221402?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 79th, minority 91th, housing 96th.

Is tract 06037221402 considered part of Harvard Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037221402 fall within Harvard Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037221402 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.9% 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. 10.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037221402 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037221402 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 06037221402 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 3% 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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