Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
South Crichton Eviction Risk: Lower , Mobile
Tract 01097003302 · Mobile County, AL · pop 5,142 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Census tract 01097003302 covers part of the South Crichton area of Mobile, AL, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. At $1,490 a month, rents run 40% over what the rest of Mobile commands.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,838
Renter share36.3%
SVI overall0.22
Poverty rate9.9%
Median income$111,042
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
28
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6993, -88.1362 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Crichton 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
9.9% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,490 rent vs county FMR
8.6
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 South Crichton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%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)
- 89Total filings over 10 yrs
- 1.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.4%Peak (2001)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 18% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within South Crichton. 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.
- 7.1%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.8%Food insecurity
- 4.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.7%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 25.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in South Crichton
The voucher gap is 36.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Running hot, supply constraint reads 8.6/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Against Mobile County at 43.6%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Mobile County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 89 filings here across 10 tracked years.
Housing insecurity runs 7.1% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2001 at 3.4% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 01097003302
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097003302?
Census tract 01097003302 in the South Crichton 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 01097003302?
Median gross rent is $1,490/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01097003302?
9.9% of residents in tract 01097003302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,142.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01097003302?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 22th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 17th, minority 41th, housing 59th.
Q5
Is tract 01097003302 considered part of South Crichton?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01097003302 fall within South Crichton (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01097003302?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 89 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01097003302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.74% of renter households, peaking at 3.4% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 01097003302 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. 4.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 01097003302 compare to Mobile overall?
Tract 01097003302 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.
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