Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Sylacauga Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01121011600 · Talladega County, AL · pop 5,595 · 54% of tract blocks fall in Sylacauga
Tract 01121011600 sits in Sylacauga eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units2,185
Renter share40.5%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate33.4%
Median income$50,805
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
96
th percentile
Very High
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Sylacauga and the region
Centroid at 33.1486, -86.2132 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sylacauga scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Sylacauga
4.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.7
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
33.4% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$734 rent vs county FMR
4.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Sylacauga
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Sylacauga
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Sylacauga
6.6
How Sylacauga compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%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)
- 281Total filings over 11 yrs
- 4.18%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.5%Peak (2014)
- 27Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 170% over the past 11 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.
- 17.3%Housing insecurity
- 13.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.8%Food insecurity
- 21.1%SNAP enrollment
- 12.5%Transit barriers
- 10.4%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 40.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Sylacauga
The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Cost burden runs 19% here against 29.9% across Talladega County.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.4/10.
Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Talladega County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 281 filings here across 11 tracked years.
Food insecurity runs 24.8% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2014 at 9.5% of renter households.
In a typical year about 4.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01121011600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01121011600?
Census tract 01121011600 in Sylacauga scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 01121011600?
Median gross rent is $734/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 19% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01121011600?
33.4% of residents in tract 01121011600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,595.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01121011600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 74th, minority 52th, housing 37th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01121011600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 281 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01121011600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.18% of renter households, peaking at 9.5% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01121011600 struggle to pay rent?
About 17.3% 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. 13.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01121011600 compare to Sylacauga overall?
Tract 01121011600 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Sylacauga at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Sylacauga eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Sylacauga
Top eight tracts in Sylacauga ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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