Spivak Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lakewood

Census tract 08059011552 in the Spivak neighborhood scores 6.5/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

Median gross rent is $1,016/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.

25.7% of residents in tract 08059011552 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,698.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 65th, minority 73th, housing 92th.

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 08059011552 fall within Spivak (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).

Tract 08059011552 scores 6.5/10 — higher than the parent city of Lakewood at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lakewood eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

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.