Huntsville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01089000302 · Madison County, AL · pop 4,360
Tract 01089000302 sits in Huntsville eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. It is home to 4,360 residents. 55% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Huntsville and the region
Centroid at 34.7823, -86.6077 · click any tract to drill in
Why Huntsville scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Huntsville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
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)
- 521Total filings over 13 yrs
- 8.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.7%Peak (2016)
- 54Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 31.6%Housing insecurity
- 25.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 45.4%Food insecurity
- 43.8%SNAP enrollment
- 22.5%Transit barriers
- 17.0%No health insurance
- 21.0%Frequent mental distress
- 48.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Huntsville
80% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Madison County average of 39.4%. SNAP participation runs 43.8% against 15.2% nationally. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $34,112, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 9/10. Housing insecurity runs 31.6% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.
It sits 1.1 points above the Madison County average of 3.7. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 521 filings here across 13 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 9.7% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 8.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Huntsville
Top eight tracts in Huntsville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.