Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
14.2%Housing insecurity
9.5%Utility-shutoff threat
18.0%Food insecurity
12.2%SNAP enrollment
9.3%Transit barriers
8.2%No health insurance
15.7%Frequent mental distress
31.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mobile
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
At $1,323 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Mobile commands. The voucher gap is 20.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.1/10.
Against the Mobile County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.4/10. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $63,269.
25% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01097003410
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097003410?
Census tract 01097003410 in Mobile scores 3.4/10 (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 01097003410?
Median gross rent is $1,323/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 81% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01097003410?
13.4% of residents in tract 01097003410 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,952.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01097003410?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 50th, minority 76th, housing 66th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 01097003410 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.2% 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. 9.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 01097003410 compare to Mobile overall?
Tract 01097003410 scores 3.4/10, 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.