Within parent city
86
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Birmingham Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01073005103 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 3,090
01073005103 is a census tract in Birmingham, AL. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,090 residents. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,378
Renter share39.1%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate36.4%
Median income$42,365
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Birmingham and the region
Centroid at 33.4857, -86.8328 · click any tract to drill in
Why Birmingham scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Birmingham
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
36.4% poverty · this tract
9.1
Supply constraint
$1,056 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Birmingham
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Birmingham
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Birmingham
3.0
How Birmingham compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 32%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 0%Grade C
- 96%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 157Total filings over 11 yrs
- 2.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.0%Peak (2000)
- 10Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 55% over the past 11 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 26.4%Housing insecurity
- 21.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 39.9%Food insecurity
- 36.5%SNAP enrollment
- 18.8%Transit barriers
- 14.5%No health insurance
- 17.4%Frequent mental distress
- 49.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Birmingham
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
Disability prevalence runs 49.0% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Against Jefferson County at 46.3%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 1.1 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.3. The filing record is not thin: 157 evictions over 11 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2000, when 2.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. In a typical year about 2.1% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 01073005103
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073005103?
Census tract 01073005103 in Birmingham scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 01073005103?
Median gross rent is $1,056/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01073005103?
36.4% of residents in tract 01073005103 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,090.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01073005103?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 99th, minority 93th, housing 32th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073005103?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 157 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01073005103 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.12% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2000. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01073005103 struggle to pay rent?
About 26.4% 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. 21.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01073005103 compare to Birmingham overall?
Tract 01073005103 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Birmingham at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Birmingham eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 01073005103 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 96% 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.
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