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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 29% Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,081
Renter share55.3%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate10.9%
Median income$71,445

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#23 of 25 tracts In Watts
Very Low
Within parent city
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#13 of 21 tracts In Los Angeles
Moderate
Within county
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#1,617 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Low
Within state
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#3,423 of 9,109 tracts In California
Elevated
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Los Angeles
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
10.9% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,340 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Los Angeles
7.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Los Angeles
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Los Angeles
7.0

How Watts compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Watts risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.18.1This tracttract 535604Los Angeles: 9.89.8Los Angelesparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 80

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 Watts. 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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037535604

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037535604?

Census tract 06037535604 in the Watts neighborhood scores 8.1/10 (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 06037535604?

Median gross rent is $1,340/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037535604?

10.9% of residents in tract 06037535604 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,256.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037535604?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 62th, minority 99th, housing 33th.
Q5

Is tract 06037535604 considered part of Watts?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037535604 fall within Watts (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037535604 struggle to pay rent?

About 26.8% 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. 10.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037535604 compare to Los Angeles overall?

Tract 06037535604 scores 8.1/10, 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 06037535604 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. 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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