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

Playa del Rey Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles

Tract 06037278102 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,116 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Tract 06037278102 sits in the Playa del Rey area of Los Angeles eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.4/10. It is home to 3,116 residents. Cost burden runs 29% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16% Stable renters 39% Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units1,431
Renter share54.6%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate4.6%
Median income$172,153

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Playa del Rey
Very Low
Within parent city
4 th percentile
Rank, 4th percentileLowHigh
#1,073 of 1,117 tracts In Los Angeles
Very Low
Within county
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#1,524 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 33.9583, -118.4524 · click any tract to drill in

Why Playa del Rey 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
4.6% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$2,983 rent vs county FMR
6.4
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 Playa del Rey compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Playa del Rey risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.48.4This tracttract 278102Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 9

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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 Playa del Rey. 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 Playa del Rey

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Average gross rent is $2,983, 54% above the Los Angeles average. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Food insecurity runs 4.9% against 17.8% nationally. The voucher gap is 13.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 06037278102

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037278102?

Census tract 06037278102 in the Playa del Rey 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 06037278102?

Median gross rent is $2,983/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037278102?

4.6% of residents in tract 06037278102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,116.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037278102?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 5th, minority 46th, housing 34th.
Q5

Is tract 06037278102 considered part of Playa del Rey?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037278102 fall within Playa del Rey (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037278102 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.6% 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 06037278102 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037278102 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 06037278102 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 6% 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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