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Faubourg St. John Eviction Risk: Elevated , New Orleans

Tract 22071013800 · Orleans Parish, LA · pop 2,790 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

Tract 22071013800 sits in the Faubourg St. John area of New Orleans eviction risk, LA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.7/10. Population here is 2,790. Annualized rent equals 48% of average household income of $29,608, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34% Stable renters 34% Owners 32%
Tract context
Occupied units1,264
Renter share68.0%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate32.8%
Median income$29,608

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Faubourg St. John
Very High
Within parent city
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#28 of 184 tracts In New Orleans
High
Within county
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#37 of 184 tracts In Orleans Parish
High
Within state
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#43 of 1,379 tracts In Louisiana
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across New Orleans and the region

Centroid at 29.9962, -90.0800 · click any tract to drill in

Why Faubourg St. John scores 6.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from New Orleans
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.4
State political climate
Louisiana legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
32.8% poverty · this tract
8.2
Supply constraint
$1,176 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from New Orleans
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from New Orleans
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from New Orleans
4.5

How Faubourg St. John compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Faubourg St. John risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.7This tracttract 0138005.3New Orleansparent city5.4Countyavg tract in county4.4Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 130Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 2.71%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.2%Peak (2012)
  • 23Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2006 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 22071013800
Filings climbed 360% over the past 8 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 239Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.74×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-03-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked New Orleans, LA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Faubourg St. John. 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 Faubourg St. John

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 36.8% against 17.8% nationally.

What pushes it up most is regional political climate at 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.2/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Orleans Parish average of 5.4. Court records carry 130 eviction filings across 8 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 6.2% of renter households were served.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 22071013800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 22071013800?

Census tract 22071013800 in the Faubourg St. John neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (Elevated 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 22071013800?

Median gross rent is $1,176/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 22071013800?

32.8% of residents in tract 22071013800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,790.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 22071013800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 80th, minority 94th, housing 93th.
Q5

Is tract 22071013800 considered part of Faubourg St. John?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 22071013800 fall within Faubourg St. John (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 22071013800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 130 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 22071013800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.71% of renter households, peaking at 6.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 22071013800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.74× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (New Orleans eviction risk, LA), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 22071013800 struggle to pay rent?

About 28.0% 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. 22.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 22071013800 compare to New Orleans overall?

Tract 22071013800 scores 6.7/10, higher than the parent city of New Orleans at 5.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from New Orleans eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 22071013800 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 76% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in New Orleans

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

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