Old Town Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Huntsville
Tract 01089001200 · Madison County, AL · pop 3,298 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
Census tract 01089001200 covers part of the Old Town Historic District area of Huntsville, AL, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,298 residents. SNAP participation runs 48.5% against 15.2% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Huntsville and the region
Centroid at 34.7333, -86.6066 · click any tract to drill in
Why Old Town Historic District scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Old Town Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%Housing & transportation
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)
- 773Total filings over 13 yrs
- 5.72%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.0%Peak (2008)
- 44Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 35.2%Housing insecurity
- 28.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 49.3%Food insecurity
- 48.5%SNAP enrollment
- 25.9%Transit barriers
- 18.5%No health insurance
- 23.4%Frequent mental distress
- 49.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Old Town Historic District
The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Average gross rent is $712, 39% below the Huntsville average. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.1/10.
Housing insecurity runs 35.2% against 14.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $20,066, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Against Madison County at 39.4%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Madison County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 773 evictions over 13 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2008, when 10.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.7% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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