Union Junction Eviction Risk: Moderate , Savannah
Tract 13051002300 · Chatham County, GA · pop 1,821 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
The Union Junction area of Savannah is where census tract 13051002300 sits, home to 1,821 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.8/10. It lands near the 69th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 69% of renter households, a severe level, and 33% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,080 monthly, set against $33,938 in average yearly household income, roughly 38% of income at the averages. About 62% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Savannah and the region
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Why Union Junction scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Union Junction compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 79%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 29%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 35%Grade A
- 10%Grade B
- 49%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 119Total filings over 1 yrs
- 23.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 23.4%Peak (2011)
- 119Filings in 2011 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 29.2%Housing insecurity
- 21.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.6%Food insecurity
- 36.5%SNAP enrollment
- 19.2%Transit barriers
- 18.6%No health insurance
- 20.1%Frequent mental distress
- 39.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Union Junction
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.4/10. 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 Savannah 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 Chatham County average of 5.6 and in line with the Georgia statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 119 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 23.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 23.4% of renter households in 2011.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 83rd 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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