Neighborhood · Ranked #12,481 of 84,120 nationally

Willowbrook Eviction Risk: Elevated , Compton

Tract 06037541300 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 5,417 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

06037541300 is a census tract in the Willowbrook area of Compton, CA. It scores 7.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,417 residents. Severe burden reaches 49%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

7.1

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 4% Owners 83%

Tract context

Occupied units1,447

Renter share16.9%

SVI overall0.79

Poverty rate8.1%

Median income$94,053

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Compton and the region

Centroid at 33.9118, -118.2411 · click any tract to drill in

Why Willowbrook scores 7.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Compton

7.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.2

State political climate

California legislature & governorship

6.8

Economic stress

8.1% poverty · this tract

2.0

Supply constraint

$1,679 rent vs county FMR

1.4

Rent control risk

Inherited from Compton

8.5

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

6.3

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Compton

8.5

Housing court bias

Inherited from Compton

7.9

How Willowbrook compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 79

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

72%Socioeconomic
52%Household composition
99%Racial/ethnic minority
77%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
68%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Willowbrook. 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.

23.6%Housing insecurity
9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
25.8%Food insecurity
21.6%SNAP enrollment
12.5%Transit barriers
16.0%No health insurance
17.7%Frequent mental distress
32.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Willowbrook

Against Los Angeles County at 53.8%, 75% of renters here are cost-burdened. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.4/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points. Housing insecurity runs 23.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 25.8% against 17.8% 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.

That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 17% 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 8.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most 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 06037541300

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037541300?

Census tract 06037541300 in the Willowbrook neighborhood scores 7.1/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 06037541300?

Median gross rent is $1,679/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 75% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037541300?

8.1% of residents in tract 06037541300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,417.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037541300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 52th, minority 99th, housing 77th.

Is tract 06037541300 considered part of Willowbrook?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037541300 fall within Willowbrook (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06037541300 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.6% 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. 9.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06037541300 compare to Compton overall?

Tract 06037541300 scores 7.1/10, lower than the parent city of Compton at 7.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Compton; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 06037541300 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. 68% 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 Compton

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