Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally
Irondale Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01073012602 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 3,065 · 73% of tract blocks fall in Irondale
Tract 01073012602 sits in Irondale eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. It is home to 3,065 residents. 33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 20%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units1,304
Renter share48.5%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate31.1%
Median income$52,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
92
th percentile
Very High
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
National
73
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Irondale and the region
Centroid at 33.5696, -86.6660 · click any tract to drill in
Why Irondale scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Irondale
6.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
31.1% poverty · this tract
7.8
Supply constraint
$1,080 rent vs county FMR
3.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Irondale
6.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Irondale
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Irondale
6.3
How Irondale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 67%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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
- 8%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)
- 133Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.15%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2006)
- 16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 45% 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.
- 19.6%Housing insecurity
- 14.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 28.0%Food insecurity
- 22.5%SNAP enrollment
- 13.5%Transit barriers
- 12.7%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 41.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Irondale
58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Jefferson County average of 46.3%. Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 1.8/10.
The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Against the Jefferson County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
Food insecurity runs 28.0% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,080, 18% below the Irondale average. Court records carry 133 eviction filings across 11 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2006 at 6.0% of renter households. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
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 3.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01073012602
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073012602?
Census tract 01073012602 in Irondale scores 5.6/10 (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 01073012602?
Median gross rent is $1,080/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01073012602?
31.1% of residents in tract 01073012602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,065.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01073012602?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 67th, minority 58th, housing 89th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073012602?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 133 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01073012602 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.15% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01073012602 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.6% 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. 14.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01073012602 compare to Irondale overall?
Tract 01073012602 scores 5.6/10, higher than the parent city of Irondale at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Irondale eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 01073012602 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. 8% 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Irondale
Top eight tracts in Irondale ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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