Mobile Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 01097003708 · Mobile County, AL · pop 4,040
With a score of 4.7/10, tract 01097003708 in Mobile ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 4,040 residents. That is riskier than about 30% of US census tracts.
47% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 43% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,300 a month against an average household income of $73,792 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6268, -88.1990 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mobile scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mobile compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
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)
- 58Total filings over 10 yrs
- 2.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.0%Peak (2016)
- 15Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.3%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.1%Food insecurity
- 8.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.1%Transit barriers
- 7.7%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 29.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Mobile
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 6.9/10. 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 about the same as the Mobile County average of 4.9 and in line with the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 37th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Mobile
Top eight tracts in Mobile ranked by composite eviction-risk score.