Birmingham Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 01073000400 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 3,135
Census tract 01073000400 belongs to Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama. It is home to 3,135 residents and scores 5.8/10, a moderate reading for landlords. That is riskier than about 70% of US census tracts.
About 55% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 41% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,048 monthly, set against $36,250 in average yearly household income, roughly 35% of income at the averages. Renters make up 58% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Birmingham and the region
Centroid at 33.5632, -86.7640 · click any tract to drill in
Why Birmingham scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Birmingham compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 10%Grade C
- 36%Grade D · redlined
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.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 307Total filings over 11 yrs
- 4.99%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.3%Peak (2002)
- 27Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 32.6%Housing insecurity
- 25.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 46.4%Food insecurity
- 42.3%SNAP enrollment
- 22.3%Transit barriers
- 17.0%No health insurance
- 20.9%Frequent mental distress
- 48.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Birmingham
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 7.8/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Birmingham eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Jefferson County average of 5.3 and above the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 36% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
In CDC survey modeling, about 32.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 25.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 01073000400
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073000400?
What is the average rent in tract 01073000400?
What is the poverty rate in tract 01073000400?
How socially vulnerable is tract 01073000400?
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073000400?
What share of households in tract 01073000400 struggle to pay rent?
How does tract 01073000400 compare to Birmingham overall?
Was tract 01073000400 historically redlined?
Highest-risk tracts in Birmingham
Top eight tracts in Birmingham ranked by composite eviction-risk score.