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Neighborhood · Ranked #3,529 of 84,120 nationally

Willowbrook Eviction Risk: High , Compton

Tract 06037542601 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,366 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Tract 06037542601 sits in the Willowbrook area of Compton, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.2/10. It is home to 3,366 residents. 33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
9.2
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39% Stable renters 32% Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units787
Renter share70.8%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate23.9%
Median income$67,112

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 11 tracts In Willowbrook
Very High
Within parent city
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 23 tracts In Compton
High
Within county
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#1,029 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#1,536 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Compton and the region

Centroid at 33.9058, -118.2266 · click any tract to drill in

Why Willowbrook scores 9.2

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
23.9% poverty · this tract
6.0
Supply constraint
$1,423 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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.
Willowbrook risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.29.2This tracttract 542601Compton: 7.87.8Comptonparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

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 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Willowbrook

Food insecurity runs 39.4% against 17.8% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.

Housing insecurity runs 32.4% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

71% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Average gross rent is $1,423, 14% below the Compton average. It sits 0.8 points above the Los Angeles County average of 8.4. 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 #3,529 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

55% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037542601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037542601?

Census tract 06037542601 in the Willowbrook neighborhood scores 9.2/10 (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 06037542601?

Median gross rent is $1,423/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037542601?

23.9% of residents in tract 06037542601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,366.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037542601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 87th, minority 99th, housing 93th.
Q5

Is tract 06037542601 considered part of Willowbrook?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037542601 fall within Willowbrook (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037542601 struggle to pay rent?

About 32.4% 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. 14.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037542601 compare to Compton overall?

Tract 06037542601 scores 9.2/10, higher 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.
Q8

Was tract 06037542601 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. 92% 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

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

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