Within parent city
68
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Gainesville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 12001001400 · Alachua County, FL · pop 4,449 · 12% of tract blocks fall in Gainesville
Tract 12001001400 sits in Gainesville eviction risk, FL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.8/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units883
Renter share25.6%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate35.1%
Median income$44,107
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
97
th percentile
Very High
Within state
90
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Gainesville and the region
Centroid at 29.6573, -82.2610 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gainesville scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Gainesville
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.4
State political climate
Florida legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
35.1% poverty · this tract
8.8
Supply constraint
$1,175 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Gainesville
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Gainesville
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Gainesville
4.0
How Gainesville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%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)
- 64Total filings over 8 yrs
- 4.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.1%Peak (2018)
- 10Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 63Total filings 2020-21
- 0.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.50×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Gainesville, FL as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Gainesville
Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Alachua County average of 4.1. Adults with no health insurance runs 22.2% against 11.3% nationally.
Cost burden runs 46% here against 50.9% across Alachua County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 64 filings here across 8 tracked years.
Average gross rent is $1,175, 9% below the Gainesville average. Filings peaked in 2018 at 4.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.3% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 12001001400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 12001001400?
Census tract 12001001400 in Gainesville 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 12001001400?
Median gross rent is $1,175/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 12001001400?
35.1% of residents in tract 12001001400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,449.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 12001001400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 82th, minority 77th, housing 56th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 12001001400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 64 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 12001001400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.27% of renter households, peaking at 4.1% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 12001001400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.50× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Gainesville eviction risk, FL), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 12001001400 compare to Gainesville overall?
Tract 12001001400 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Gainesville at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Gainesville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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