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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Westdale Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037271400 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,266 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

06037271400 is a census tract in the Westdale area of Los Angeles, CA. It scores 8.4/10 for landlords. 53% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 6% Owners 88%
Tract context
Occupied units1,372
Renter share11.7%
SVI overall0.08
Poverty rate0.6%
Median income$172,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 8 tracts In Westdale
Moderate
Within parent city
6 th percentile
Rank, 6th percentileLowHigh
#1,051 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Very Low
Within county
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#1,502 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within state
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#2,744 of 9,109 tracts In California
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region

Centroid at 34.0101, -118.4474 · click any tract to drill in

Why Westdale scores 8.4

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
0.6% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$3,501 rent vs county FMR
8.3
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 Westdale compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Westdale risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.48.4This tracttract 271400Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 8

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

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.

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 Westdale. 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 Westdale

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. At $3,501 a month, rents run 81% over what the rest of Los Angeles commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10.

The voucher gap is 33.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 5.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 5.7% 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. That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 06037271400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037271400?

Census tract 06037271400 in the Westdale neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 06037271400?

Median gross rent is $3,501/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037271400?

0.6% of residents in tract 06037271400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,266.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037271400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 8th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 5th, household 36th, minority 44th, housing 11th.
Q5

Is tract 06037271400 considered part of Westdale?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037271400 fall within Westdale (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037271400 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.7% 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. 2.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037271400 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037271400 scores 8.4/10, 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 06037271400 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. 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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