Huntsville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01089000701 · Madison County, AL · pop 2,938
The Moderate-tier score of 5.2/10 for census tract 01089000701 reflects conditions in Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama. On the national scale it ranks #44,203 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 57% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 37% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $891 a month while the average household earns $41,328 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 54% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Huntsville and the region
Centroid at 34.7672, -86.6022 · click any tract to drill in
Why Huntsville scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Huntsville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%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)
- 626Total filings over 13 yrs
- 8.94%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.0%Peak (2015)
- 41Filings 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.
- 27.3%Housing insecurity
- 21.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.2%Food insecurity
- 34.2%SNAP enrollment
- 19.3%Transit barriers
- 14.9%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 43.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Huntsville
What moves this score most is economic stress at 8.4/10. 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 Huntsville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Madison County average of 4.3 and above the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 626 eviction filings here over 13 tracked years, with about 8.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 10.0% of renter households in 2015.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 96th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 01089000701
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Highest-risk tracts in Huntsville
Top eight tracts in Huntsville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.