Within parent city
67
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Madison Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 01089011012 · Madison County, AL · pop 5,596 · 77% of tract blocks fall in Madison
Tract 01089011012 sits in Madison eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 5,596 residents. The dominant input is supply constraint at 10/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 2%
Owners 97%
Tract context
Occupied units2,112
Renter share3.5%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate1.9%
Median income$160,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
40
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Madison and the region
Centroid at 34.7345, -86.7327 · click any tract to drill in
Why Madison scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Madison
2.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.6
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
1.9% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,142 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Madison
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Madison
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Madison
2.0
How Madison compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 7
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%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)
- 55Total filings over 12 yrs
- 3.29%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.9%Peak (2011)
- 1Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 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.
- 4.9%Housing insecurity
- 3.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.5%Food insecurity
- 2.9%SNAP enrollment
- 3.7%Transit barriers
- 4.1%No health insurance
- 11.6%Frequent mental distress
- 22.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Madison
At $2,142 a month, rents run 47% over what the rest of Madison commands. The voucher gap is 71.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 2.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Cost burden runs 33% here against 39.4% across Madison County. Housing insecurity runs 4.9% against 14.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 55 evictions over 12 years of observation. It sits 0.7 points below the Madison County average of 3.7.
Filings peaked in 2011 at 6.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 3% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 01089011012
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01089011012?
Census tract 01089011012 in Madison 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 01089011012?
Median gross rent is $2,142/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01089011012?
1.9% of residents in tract 01089011012 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,596.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01089011012?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 30th, minority 33th, housing 16th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01089011012?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 55 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 01089011012 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.29% of renter households, peaking at 6.9% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01089011012 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.9% 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. 3.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01089011012 compare to Madison overall?
Tract 01089011012 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Madison at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Madison eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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