LA Evictions by Zip Code (2018-2025)

Understanding where eviction lawsuits are happening in L.A. County is important. Policy makers can use this data to craft interventions that help vulnerable renters, such as assistance navigating the legal system. (Consider that in almost half of the eviction cases that end up in court, tenants lose by default, meaning they don’t properly respond to the paperwork and/or appear in court, not because they are in violation of their rental agreement.)

In Los Angeles County, when a landlord wants to evict you, they have to file a notice of intent with the local housing department. These notices, typically warnings to fix lease violations or vacate the unit, are often resolved before an eviction lawsuit is filed and the case ends up in court.

Los Angeles does a pretty good job tracking landlords’ intent to evict, but they aren’t tracking which eviction lawsuits make it to court. This lack of data makes it hard to understand how many renters are actually being displaced because of evictions, and where. 

Since 2014, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a volunteer corps of self-described “data nerds” and “radical cartographers,” has been collecting L.A. County eviction data to support the work of housing justice organizations and coalitions. This interactive map shows eviction lawsuit filings in Los Angeles County since 2018 by month, period, and zip code. An animated time series feature lets the user see the concentration of filings over time.

The map relies on data from Los Angeles County Superior Court and will be updated quarterly.