Marks Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Birmingham

SNAP participation runs 48.8% against 15.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.6/10.

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Jefferson County average of 46.3%. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Housing insecurity runs 33.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $26,901, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. At $861 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Birmingham commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.3.

Court records carry 771 eviction filings across 11 observed years. The worst year on record was 2001, when 12.2% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

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.