Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Westbrook Trace Eviction Risk: Lower , Vestavia Hills
Tract 01073012910 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 4,527 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
01073012910 is a census tract in the Westbrook Trace area of Vestavia Hills, AL. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,527. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33%
Stable renters 34%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units2,431
Renter share67.7%
SVI overall0.37
Poverty rate8.1%
Median income$92,780
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
78
th percentile
High
Within county
9
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Vestavia Hills and the region
Centroid at 33.4263, -86.7322 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westbrook Trace scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Vestavia Hills
6.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
8.1% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,723 rent vs county FMR
8.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Vestavia Hills
6.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Vestavia Hills
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Vestavia Hills
5.5
How Westbrook Trace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 39%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
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)
- 187Total filings over 11 yrs
- 4.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.0%Peak (2001)
- 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 82% over the past 11 months.
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.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 6.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 28.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Westbrook Trace
The voucher gap is 36.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 8.6/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.
68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.
Against the Jefferson County average of 4.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points. SNAP participation runs 6.7% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 187 evictions over 11 years of observation.
At $1,723 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Vestavia Hills commands. Filings peaked in 2001 at 10.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.4% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 01073012910
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073012910?
Census tract 01073012910 in the Westbrook Trace neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 01073012910?
Median gross rent is $1,723/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01073012910?
8.1% of residents in tract 01073012910 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,527.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01073012910?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 37th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 36th, household 39th, minority 39th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 01073012910 considered part of Westbrook Trace?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01073012910 fall within Westbrook Trace (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073012910?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 187 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01073012910 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.40% of renter households, peaking at 10.0% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 01073012910 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.7% 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 01073012910 compare to Vestavia Hills overall?
Tract 01073012910 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Vestavia Hills at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Vestavia Hills eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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