Watts Eviction Risk: High , Los Angeles
Tract 06037535604 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 4,256 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
06037535604 is a census tract in the Watts area of South Gate, CA. It scores 8.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,256 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Los Angeles and the region
Centroid at 33.9507, -118.2241 · click any tract to drill in
Why Watts scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Watts compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 62%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 77%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Watts. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 26.8%Housing insecurity
- 10.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.7%Food insecurity
- 24.9%SNAP enrollment
- 14.4%Transit barriers
- 23.3%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 36.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Watts
Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 23.3% against 11.3% nationally. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County.
SNAP participation runs 24.9% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,340 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of South Gate commands.
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 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Los Angeles County average of 8.4 closely. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $71,445.
55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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