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Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally

Suburban Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Mobile

Tract 01097006802 · Mobile County, AL · pop 3,161 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 01097006802 covers part of the Suburban Heights area of Mobile, AL, and scores 3.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 49%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 13% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,189
Renter share36.2%
SVI overall0.65
Poverty rate14.9%
Median income$52,974

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Suburban Heights
Moderate
Within parent city
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#48 of 78 tracts In Mobile
Low
Within county
46 th percentile
Rank, 46th percentileLowHigh
#73 of 135 tracts In Mobile County
Moderate
Within state
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#680 of 1,436 tracts In Alabama
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Mobile and the region

Centroid at 30.5986, -88.1816 · click any tract to drill in

Why Suburban Heights scores 3.8

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
14.9% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,018 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 Suburban Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Suburban Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.8This tracttract 0068023.6Mobileparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 65

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

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)

  • 173Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 4.51%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.6%Peak (2014)
  • 25Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 01097006802
Filings stayed roughly flat 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 Suburban Heights

Cost burden runs 65% here against 43.6% across Mobile County. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 173 filings here across 10 tracked years. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 6.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Mobile County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,018, close to the Mobile average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $52,974.

36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 01097006802

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097006802?

Census tract 01097006802 in the Suburban Heights neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (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 01097006802?

Median gross rent is $1,018/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 01097006802?

14.9% of residents in tract 01097006802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,161.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 01097006802?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 13th, minority 40th, housing 47th.
Q5

Is tract 01097006802 considered part of Suburban Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01097006802 fall within Suburban Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01097006802?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 173 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01097006802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.51% of renter households, peaking at 6.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 01097006802 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.7% 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. 9.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 01097006802 compare to Mobile overall?

Tract 01097006802 scores 3.8/10, right in line with 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Mobile

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

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