Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Park Place Eviction Risk: Lower , Mobile
Tract 01097002502 · Mobile County, AL · pop 2,059 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 01097002502 covers part of the Park Place area of Mobile, AL, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,059 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units891
Renter share31.4%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate10.7%
Median income$75,795
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
10
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
19
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6923, -88.0897 · click any tract to drill in
Why Park Place scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Mobile
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
10.7% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,087 rent vs county FMR
4.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Mobile
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Mobile
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Mobile
3.0
How Park Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 39%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 2%Grade A
- 18%Grade B
- 47%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 80Total filings over 10 yrs
- 2.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.8%Peak (2001)
- 3Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 84% over the past 10 months.
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.
- 7.1%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.3%Food insecurity
- 5.5%SNAP enrollment
- 5.2%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 12.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Park Place
Against Mobile County at 43.6%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.
Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 5.5% against 15.2% nationally.
It sits 1.0 points below the Mobile County average of 4.0. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.7/10.
Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 80 filings here across 10 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2001, when 3.8% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Mobile. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 2.1% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01097002502
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097002502?
Census tract 01097002502 in the Park Place neighborhood 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 01097002502?
Median gross rent is $1,087/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01097002502?
10.7% of residents in tract 01097002502 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,059.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01097002502?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 8th, minority 41th, housing 39th.
Q5
Is tract 01097002502 considered part of Park Place?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01097002502 fall within Park Place (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01097002502?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 80 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01097002502 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.12% of renter households, peaking at 3.8% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 01097002502 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.1% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 01097002502 compare to Mobile overall?
Tract 01097002502 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Mobile at 3.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Mobile eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 01097002502 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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.
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