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Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally

Ocean Park Eviction Risk: High , Santa Monica

Tract 06037273404 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 1,424 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 06037273404 sits in the Ocean Park area of Los Angeles eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.5/10. Population here is 1,424. Cost burden runs 72% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 50% Stable renters 19% Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units1,291
Renter share69.7%
SVI overall0.17
Poverty rate9.1%
Median income$84,449

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 10 tracts In Ocean Park
Moderate
Within parent city
38 th percentile
Rank, 38th percentileLowHigh
#694 of 1,117 tracts In Santa Monica
Low
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#858 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#1,235 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Santa Monica and the region

Centroid at 33.9950, -118.4777 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ocean Park scores 9.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Santa Monica
9.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
9.1% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$2,220 rent vs county FMR
3.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Santa Monica
10.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
9.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Santa Monica
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Santa Monica
9.0

How Ocean Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ocean Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.59.5This tracttract 273404Santa Monica: 9.19.1Santa Monicaparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 17

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 Ocean Park. 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 Ocean Park

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. 34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. 70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

It sits 1.1 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $2,220, 15% above the Los Angeles average. Housing insecurity runs 6.9% against 14.2% 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.

Nationally it ranks #2,657 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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 06037273404

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037273404?

Census tract 06037273404 in the Ocean Park neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (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 06037273404?

Median gross rent is $2,220/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037273404?

9.1% of residents in tract 06037273404 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,424.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037273404?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 17th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 0th, minority 25th, housing 62th.
Q5

Is tract 06037273404 considered part of Ocean Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037273404 fall within Ocean Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037273404 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.9% 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. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037273404 compare to Santa Monica overall?

Tract 06037273404 scores 9.5/10, higher than the parent city of Santa Monica at 9.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Santa Monica; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06037273404 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. 23% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Santa Monica

Top eight tracts in Santa Monica ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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