Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Highland Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Birmingham
Tract 01073004901 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 1,053 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 01073004901 sits in the Highland Avenue Historic District area of Birmingham eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Population here is 1,053. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40%
Stable renters 45%
Owners 15%
Tract context
Occupied units836
Renter share84.8%
SVI overall0.51
Poverty rate26.4%
Median income$43,100
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
88
th percentile
High
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Birmingham and the region
Centroid at 33.4971, -86.7918 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Avenue Historic District scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
26.4% poverty · this tract
6.6
Supply constraint
$937 rent vs county FMR
2.4
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 Highland Avenue Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 51
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%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.
- 21%Grade A
- 27%Grade B
- 44%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.
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)
- 230Total filings over 11 yrs
- 2.22%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2001)
- 11Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 59% over the past 11 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Highland Avenue Historic District. 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.
- 10.0%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.1%Food insecurity
- 8.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 7.0%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 29.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Highland Avenue Historic District
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.3. Average gross rent is $937, 15% below the Birmingham average.
The filing record is not thin: 230 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2001 at 3.5% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 5.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 01073004901
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073004901?
Census tract 01073004901 in the Highland Avenue Historic District 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.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 01073004901?
Median gross rent is $937/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01073004901?
26.4% of residents in tract 01073004901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,053.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01073004901?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 51th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 2th, minority 49th, housing 98th.
Q5
Is tract 01073004901 considered part of Highland Avenue Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01073004901 fall within Highland Avenue Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073004901?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 230 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01073004901 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.22% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 01073004901 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.0% 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. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 01073004901 compare to Birmingham overall?
Tract 01073004901 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.
Q9
Was tract 01073004901 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. 0% 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.
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