Skip to content
Neighborhood · Ranked #2,657 of 84,120 nationally

Lair Port Eviction Risk: High , Hawthorne

Tract 06037601502 · Los Angeles, CA · pop 3,640 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 06037601502 covers part of the Lair Port area of Lennox, CA, and scores 9.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,640 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Risk score
9.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29% Stable renters 34% Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units910
Renter share62.6%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate16.1%
Median income$65,000

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 11 tracts In Lair Port
Very High
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In Hawthorne
Moderate
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#874 of 2,495 tracts In Los Angeles
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#1,235 of 9,109 tracts In California
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Hawthorne and the region

Centroid at 33.9401, -118.3636 · click any tract to drill in

Why Lair Port scores 9.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Hawthorne
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
16.1% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$1,436 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hawthorne
8.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hawthorne
9.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hawthorne
7.5

How Lair Port compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Lair Port risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.59.5This tracttract 601502Hawthorne: 9.09.0Hawthorneparent cityCounty: 8.48.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 98

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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 Lair Port. 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 Lair Port

Food insecurity runs 38.7% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Housing insecurity runs 31.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10. Cost burden runs 46% here against 53.8% across Los Angeles County. Against the Los Angeles County average of 8.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Los Angeles. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 06037601502

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06037601502?

Census tract 06037601502 in the Lair Port neighborhood scores 9.5/10 (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 06037601502?

Median gross rent is $1,436/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06037601502?

16.1% of residents in tract 06037601502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,640.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06037601502?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 83th, minority 97th, housing 93th.
Q5

Is tract 06037601502 considered part of Lair Port?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06037601502 fall within Lair Port (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06037601502 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.1% 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. 13.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06037601502 compare to Hawthorne overall?

Tract 06037601502 scores 9.5/10, higher than the parent city of Hawthorne at 9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hawthorne; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06037601502 historically redlined?

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

Highest-risk tracts in Hawthorne

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

Related