Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Ensley Eviction Risk: Moderate , Birmingham

Tract 01073003400 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 1,898 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

01073003400 is a census tract in the Ensley area of Birmingham, AL. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. 33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score

5.4

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 30% Owners 35%

Tract context

Occupied units876

Renter share65.3%

SVI overall0.87

Poverty rate31.8%

Median income$32,125

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Birmingham and the region

Centroid at 33.5053, -86.9016 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ensley scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Birmingham

6.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

5.7

State political climate

Alabama legislature & governorship

1.8

Economic stress

31.8% poverty · this tract

8.0

Supply constraint

$1,090 rent vs county FMR

3.6

Rent control risk

Inherited from Birmingham

1.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

3.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Birmingham

5.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Birmingham

3.0

How Ensley compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

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

99%Socioeconomic
72%Household composition
96%Racial/ethnic minority
40%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
0%Grade B
43%Grade C
32%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.

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)

271Total filings over 11 yrs
4.56%Avg annual filing rate
7.4%Peak (2005)
16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2000 to 2016

Filings dropped 16% over the past 11 months.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Ensley. 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.

29.3%Housing insecurity
22.8%Utility-shutoff threat
41.8%Food insecurity
37.4%SNAP enrollment
19.3%Transit barriers
13.1%No health insurance
19.5%Frequent mental distress
46.3%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Ensley

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $32,125 and the ratio lands at 41%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Housing insecurity runs 29.3% against 14.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Disability prevalence runs 46.3% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, economic stress reads 8/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Jefferson County average of 46.3%.

It sits 1.1 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.3. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 271 filings here across 11 tracked years.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 01073003400

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073003400?

Census tract 01073003400 in the Ensley neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 01073003400?

Median gross rent is $1,090/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 01073003400?

31.8% of residents in tract 01073003400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,898.

How socially vulnerable is tract 01073003400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 72th, minority 96th, housing 40th.

Is tract 01073003400 considered part of Ensley?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01073003400 fall within Ensley (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073003400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 271 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01073003400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.56% of renter households, peaking at 7.4% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 01073003400 struggle to pay rent?

About 29.3% 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. 22.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 01073003400 compare to Birmingham overall?

Tract 01073003400 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Birmingham at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Birmingham eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 01073003400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 32% 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 Birmingham

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org