Woodlawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Birmingham
Tract 01073002305 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 3,023 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Eviction risk in the Woodlawn area of Birmingham centers on tract 01073002305, which scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 3,023 residents. That is riskier than about 47% of US census tracts.
43% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,270 a month against an average household income of $76,948 a year, roughly 20% of income at the averages. Renters make up 30% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Birmingham and the region
Centroid at 33.5334, -86.7478 · click any tract to drill in
Why Woodlawn scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Woodlawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 7%Grade B
- 49%Grade C
- 19%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)
- 606Total filings over 11 yrs
- 12.45%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.3%Peak (2001)
- 39Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Woodlawn. 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.
- 10.3%Housing insecurity
- 7.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.6%Food insecurity
- 8.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Woodlawn
The heaviest input here is supply constraint 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 Birmingham eviction risk, 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 5.3 and above the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 32nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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