Louisville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 21111000900 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 1,893
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 21111000900 in Louisville, KY reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,893 residents. 41% 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 Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.2531, -85.8209 · click any tract to drill in
Why Louisville scores 5.4
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.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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
- 100%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 880Total filings over 14 yrs
- 14.66%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.1%Peak (2013)
- 80Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Louisville
around two-thirds of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Jefferson County average of 42.9%. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.2/10.
Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $25,466, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.
Against the Jefferson County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Average gross rent is $829, 18% below the Louisville average. Court records carry 880 eviction filings across 14 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 18.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 14.7% of renter households face a filing.
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.
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