Vestavia Lake Eviction Risk: Lower , Vestavia Hills
Tract 01073012921 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 3,707 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
How risky is the Vestavia Lake area of Vestavia Hills for landlords? Census tract 01073012921 scores 5.4/10, the Moderate tier. It lands near the 55th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
43% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 10% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,644 a month against an average household income of $136,250 a year, roughly 14% of income at the averages. About 16% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Vestavia Hills and the region
Centroid at 33.4398, -86.7959 · click any tract to drill in
Why Vestavia Lake scores 1.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Vestavia Lake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 8%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Vestavia Lake. 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.
- 5.7%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.6%Food insecurity
- 3.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.2%Transit barriers
- 4.9%No health insurance
- 13.6%Frequent mental distress
- 25.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Vestavia Lake
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at $1/10. 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 Vestavia Hills eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 5.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 5th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Vestavia Hills
Top eight tracts in Vestavia Hills ranked by composite eviction-risk score.