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Census Tract · Ranked #42,813 of 84,120 nationally

Brookhaven Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 13089021419 · DeKalb County, GA · pop 1,988 · 92% of tract blocks fall in Brookhaven

Tract 13089021419 sits in Brookhaven eviction risk, GA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.4/10. It is home to 1,988 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 44% Stable renters 33% Owners 23%
Tract context
Occupied units1,050
Renter share76.6%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate10.5%
Median income$76,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#4 of 17 tracts In Brookhaven
High
Within county
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#99 of 203 tracts In DeKalb County
Moderate
Within state
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#1,080 of 2,791 tracts In Georgia
Elevated
National
49 th percentile
Rank, 49th percentileLowHigh
#42,813 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Brookhaven and the region

Centroid at 33.8449, -84.3199 · click any tract to drill in

Why Brookhaven scores 4.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Brookhaven
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.4
State political climate
Georgia legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
10.5% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,728 rent vs county FMR
4.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Brookhaven
5.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Brookhaven
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Brookhaven
5.6

How Brookhaven compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Brookhaven risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.4This tracttract 0214194.5Brookhavenparent city4.5Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 62

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 1,411Total filings 2020-21
  • 18.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Atlanta, GA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Brookhaven

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the DeKalb County average of 52.2%. At $1,728 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Brookhaven commands.

That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

It tracks the DeKalb County average of 4.5 closely. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $76,667.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 13089021419

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13089021419?

Census tract 13089021419 in Brookhaven scores 4.4/10 (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 13089021419?

Median gross rent is $1,728/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 13089021419?

10.5% of residents in tract 13089021419 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,988.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 13089021419?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 28th, minority 86th, housing 57th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 13089021419 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.6% 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. 10.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 13089021419 compare to Brookhaven overall?

Tract 13089021419 scores 4.4/10, right in line with the parent city of Brookhaven at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Brookhaven eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Brookhaven

Top eight tracts in Brookhaven ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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