Little Rock Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 05119000500 · Pulaski County, AR · pop 1,690
Little Rock is where census tract 05119000500 sits, home to 1,690 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 4.7/10. It lands near the 30th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 50% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $879 a month while the average household earns $26,359 a year, roughly 40% of income at the averages. About 44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Little Rock and the region
Centroid at 34.7171, -92.2729 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little Rock scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Little Rock compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 41%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 5%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 50%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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.
- 34.0%Housing insecurity
- 29.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 46.7%Food insecurity
- 41.9%SNAP enrollment
- 24.0%Transit barriers
- 16.7%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 52.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Little Rock
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.6/10. 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 Little Rock 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 Pulaski County average of 4.5 and above the Arkansas statewide average of 4.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 50% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
In CDC survey modeling, about 34.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 29.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
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 Little Rock
Top eight tracts in Little Rock ranked by composite eviction-risk score.