Louisville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 21111012801 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 2,985 · 40% of tract blocks fall in Louisville
Tract 21111012801 covers Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) in Jefferson County in Kentucky. Home to 2,985 residents, it scores 5.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 65th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 65% of renter households, a severe level, and 27% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $593 a month while the average household earns $34,250 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 26% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.2128, -85.8028 · click any tract to drill in
Why Louisville scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Louisville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 86
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 13%Grade B
- 1%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)
- 1,069Total filings over 14 yrs
- 13.89%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.5%Peak (2014)
- 79Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Louisville
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. 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 about the same as 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,069 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 13.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 14.5% of renter households in 2014.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 86th 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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