Louisville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 21111011713 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 3,245
Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) anchors census tract 21111011713, which lands at $1/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #20,978 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 73% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,232 monthly, set against $39,988 in average yearly household income, roughly 37% of income at the averages. Renters make up 63% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.0968, -85.6987 · click any tract to drill in
Why Louisville scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Louisville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%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)
- 1,441Total filings over 14 yrs
- 23.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 45.5%Peak (2013)
- 110Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Louisville
What moves this score most is economic stress at 7.7/10. 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 Louisville eviction risk/Jefferson County metro government (balance), while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Jefferson County average of 5.5 and above the Kentucky statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 74th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,441 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 23.8% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 45.5% of renter households in 2013.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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