West Haven Eviction Risk: Elevated , Tuscaloosa
Tract 01125011800 · Tuscaloosa County, AL · pop 2,988 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
How risky is the West Haven neighborhood of Tuscaloosa for landlords? Census tract 01125011800 scores 5.4/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #37,888 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 68% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $796 a month against an average household income of $25,920 a year, roughly 37% of income at the averages. About 54% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Tuscaloosa and the region
Centroid at 33.1888, -87.5687 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Haven scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Haven compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%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)
- 152Total filings over 6 yrs
- 4.31%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.2%Peak (2016)
- 39Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 36.6%Housing insecurity
- 30.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 53.5%Food insecurity
- 52.3%SNAP enrollment
- 26.1%Transit barriers
- 16.6%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 52.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West Haven
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $1/10. 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 Tuscaloosa eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Tuscaloosa County average of 4.7 and above the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 36.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 30.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 94th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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