Vestavia Lake Eviction Risk: Lower , Vestavia Hills
Tract 01073012914 · Jefferson County, AL · pop 2,082 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 01073012914 belongs to the Vestavia Lake neighborhood of Vestavia Hills, Alabama. It is home to 2,082 residents and scores 6.3/10, an elevated reading for landlords. It lands near the 84th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
74% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 60% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $2,046 monthly, set against $62,222 in average yearly household income, roughly 39% of income at the averages. About 57% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Vestavia Hills and the region
Centroid at 33.4536, -86.7958 · click any tract to drill in
Why Vestavia Lake scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Vestavia Lake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 24%Household composition
- 16%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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
- 0%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.
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)
- 28Total filings over 11 yrs
- 0.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.3%Peak (2012)
- 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Vestavia Lake. 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.
- 6.1%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.7%Food insecurity
- 5.2%SNAP enrollment
- 5.3%Transit barriers
- 6.3%No health insurance
- 13.0%Frequent mental distress
- 36.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Vestavia Lake
The score leans hardest on 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 Vestavia Hills eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Jefferson County average of 5.3 and above the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 6.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 44th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in Vestavia Hills
Top eight tracts in Vestavia Hills ranked by composite eviction-risk score.