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Sherwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mobile

Tract 01097007400 · Mobile County, AL · pop 2,898 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

Landlord eviction risk in census tract 01097007400 (the Sherwood area of Mobile, Alabama) comes in at 5.6/10, the Moderate tier. It lands near the 63rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.

About 61% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 27% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,023 monthly, set against $41,146 in average yearly household income, roughly 30% of income at the averages. Renters make up 54% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33% Stable renters 21% Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units1,159
Renter share54.4%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate37.8%
Median income$41,146

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Sherwood
Moderate
Within parent city
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 78 tracts In Mobile
High
Within county
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#10 of 135 tracts In Mobile County
Very High
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#156 of 1,436 tracts In Alabama
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Mobile and the region

Centroid at 30.6302, -88.0699 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sherwood scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
37.8% poverty · this tract
9.5
Supply constraint
$1,023 rent vs county FMR
4.4
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 Sherwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sherwood risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.75.7This tracttract 007400Mobile: 2.82.8Mobileparent cityCounty: 4.34.3Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.14.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 72

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 319Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 5.40%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.2%Peak (2009)
  • 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 010970074002001: 26 filings (3.80/100 renter HHs)2002: 38 filings (5.55/100 renter HHs)2006: 38 filings (6.44/100 renter HHs)2007: 37 filings (6.27/100 renter HHs)2008: 46 filings (7.80/100 renter HHs)2009: 54 filings (9.16/100 renter HHs)2013: 19 filings (3.52/100 renter HHs)2014: 16 filings (2.96/100 renter HHs)2015: 25 filings (4.63/100 renter HHs)2016: 20 filings (3.87/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 23% 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sherwood

The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.5/10. 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 Mobile eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Mobile County average of 4.9 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 21.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 72nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 01097007400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097007400?

Census tract 01097007400 in the Sherwood neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (Moderate 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 01097007400?

Median gross rent is $1,023/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 01097007400?

37.8% of residents in tract 01097007400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,898.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 01097007400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 73th, minority 74th, housing 52th.
Q5

Is tract 01097007400 considered part of Sherwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01097007400 fall within Sherwood (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01097007400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 319 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01097007400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.40% of renter households, peaking at 9.2% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 01097007400 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.1% 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. 16.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 01097007400 compare to Mobile overall?

Tract 01097007400 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of Mobile at 2.8/10. 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 01097007400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 1% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Mobile

Top eight tracts in Mobile ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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