Within parent city
43
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Birmingham Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01073005500 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 1,594 · 75% of tract blocks fall in Birmingham
Tract 01073005500 sits in Birmingham eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Population here is 1,594. Average gross rent is $395, 64% below the Birmingham average.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 48%
Tract context
Occupied units681
Renter share52.4%
SVI overall0.92
Poverty rate33.6%
Median income$30,616
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
85
th percentile
High
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Birmingham and the region
Centroid at 33.5742, -86.7985 · 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
33.6% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$395 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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
- 49%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)
- 218Total filings over 11 yrs
- 5.17%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.4%Peak (2000)
- 24Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 37% 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.
- 28.9%Housing insecurity
- 22.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 41.0%Food insecurity
- 37.1%SNAP enrollment
- 19.9%Transit barriers
- 14.4%No health insurance
- 20.6%Frequent mental distress
- 46.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Birmingham
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Housing insecurity runs 28.9% against 14.2% nationally.
On the high side, economic stress reads 8.4/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Against the Jefferson County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Cost burden runs 41% here against 46.3% across Jefferson County.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 218 filings here across 11 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2000 at 8.4% of renter households. 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 5.2% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01073005500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073005500?
Census tract 01073005500 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 01073005500?
Median gross rent is $395/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01073005500?
33.6% of residents in tract 01073005500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,594.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01073005500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 92th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 88th, minority 80th, housing 76th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073005500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 218 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01073005500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.17% of renter households, peaking at 8.4% in 2000. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01073005500 struggle to pay rent?
About 28.9% 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. 22.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01073005500 compare to Birmingham overall?
Tract 01073005500 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 01073005500 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. 49% 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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