Within parent city
26
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally
Mobile Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 01097007000 · Mobile County, AL · pop 4,040 · 60% of tract blocks fall in Mobile
Tract 01097007000 sits in Mobile eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.1/10. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units1,898
Renter share20.3%
SVI overall0.34
Poverty rate14.7%
Median income$79,700
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
34
th percentile
Low
Within state
35
th percentile
Low
National
22
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.5725, -88.1255 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mobile scores 3.1
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
14.7% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,216 rent vs county FMR
6.1
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 Mobile compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 32%Household composition
- 16%Racial/ethnic minority
- 9%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)
- 125Total filings over 10 yrs
- 3.22%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.1%Peak (2002)
- 10Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 47% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.7%Food insecurity
- 9.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 33.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mobile
Cost burden runs 32% here against 43.6% across Mobile County. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.
The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Mobile County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Court records carry 125 eviction filings across 10 observed years.
Average gross rent is $1,216, 14% above the Mobile average. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10. Filings peaked in 2002 at 5.1% of renter households.
In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #65,414 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.1/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $79,700.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01097007000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097007000?
Census tract 01097007000 in Mobile scores 3.1/10 (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 01097007000?
Median gross rent is $1,216/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01097007000?
14.7% of residents in tract 01097007000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,040.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01097007000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 34th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 32th, minority 16th, housing 9th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01097007000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 125 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01097007000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.22% of renter households, peaking at 5.1% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01097007000 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.6% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01097007000 compare to Mobile overall?
Tract 01097007000 scores 3.1/10, 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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