Cullom Street-Twelfth Street South Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Birmingham
Tract 01073005000 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 3,424 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 4.2/10, tract 01073005000 in the Cullom Street-Twelfth Street South Historic District area of Birmingham, AL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,424 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Birmingham and the region
Centroid at 33.4867, -86.8173 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cullom Street-Twelfth Street South Historic District scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cullom Street-Twelfth Street South Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 42
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%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
- 17%Grade B
- 35%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)
- 447Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.5%Peak (2001)
- 26Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Cullom Street-Twelfth Street South Historic District. 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.
- 10.8%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 8.2%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 17.4%Frequent mental distress
- 27.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cullom Street-Twelfth Street South Historic District
Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Against Jefferson County at 46.3%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 447 filings here across 11 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2001, when 4.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Birmingham. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.7/10.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Jefferson County average of 4.3 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,036, close to the Birmingham average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $60,703.
61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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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