Gainesville Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 13139001202 · Hall County, GA · pop 6,908 · 14% of tract blocks fall in Gainesville
Census tract 13139001202 covers part of Gainesville, GA, and scores 6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,908. 32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Gainesville and the region
Centroid at 34.2251, -83.7514 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gainesville scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Gainesville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%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)
- 54Total filings over 1 yrs
- 15.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.9%Peak (2003)
- 54Filings in 2003 (latest validated)
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.
- 25.1%Housing insecurity
- 13.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.2%Food insecurity
- 22.2%SNAP enrollment
- 15.1%Transit barriers
- 33.1%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 37.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Gainesville
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 33.1% against 11.3% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9/10. It sits 1.7 points above the Hall County average of 4.3.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Housing insecurity runs 25.1% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 54 filings here across 1 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2003 at 15.9% of renter households.
In a typical year about 15.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
About tract 13139001202
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