Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #19,618 of 84,120 nationally
Fairfield Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01073010603 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 2,021 · 83% of tract blocks fall in Fairfield
Tract 01073010603 sits in Fairfield, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.9/10. It is home to 2,021 residents. Severe burden reaches 68%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 5%
Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units744
Renter share31.9%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate26.4%
Median income$38,750
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
98
th percentile
Very High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
National
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fairfield and the region
Centroid at 33.4659, -86.9222 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fairfield scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fairfield
6.1
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
$997 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fairfield
9.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fairfield
8.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fairfield
9.4
How Fairfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%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
- 35%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)
- 247Total filings over 11 yrs
- 9.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.2%Peak (2012)
- 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 54% over the past 11 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 22.4%Housing insecurity
- 17.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.0%Food insecurity
- 25.6%SNAP enrollment
- 14.6%Transit barriers
- 9.8%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 41.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fairfield
Against Jefferson County at 46.3%, 86% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.4/10.
It sits 1.6 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.3. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10.
The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 31.0% against 17.8% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 247 evictions over 11 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 22.4% against 14.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 19.2% of renter households were served. 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 9.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
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 01073010603
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01073010603?
Census tract 01073010603 in Fairfield scores 5.9/10 (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 01073010603?
Median gross rent is $997/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 86% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01073010603?
26.4% of residents in tract 01073010603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,021.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01073010603?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 82th, minority 95th, housing 72th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01073010603?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 247 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 01073010603 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.28% of renter households, peaking at 19.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01073010603 struggle to pay rent?
About 22.4% 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. 17.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01073010603 compare to Fairfield overall?
Tract 01073010603 scores 5.9/10, higher than the parent city of Fairfield at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fairfield; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 01073010603 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Fairfield
Top eight tracts in Fairfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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