Huntsville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01089001301 · Madison County, AL · pop 3,816
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 01089001301 in Huntsville in Madison County ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 3,816 residents. It lands near the 44th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 52% of renter households, a severe level, and 32% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $888 a month while the average household earns $33,911 a year, roughly 31% of income at the averages. About 90% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Huntsville and the region
Centroid at 34.7416, -86.6377 · click any tract to drill in
Why Huntsville scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Huntsville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 67%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%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)
- 2,379Total filings over 13 yrs
- 18.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 30.2%Peak (2007)
- 153Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 25.5%Housing insecurity
- 18.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.0%Food insecurity
- 28.8%SNAP enrollment
- 18.6%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 22.1%Frequent mental distress
- 38.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Huntsville
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.1/10. 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 Huntsville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Madison County average of 4.3 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 25.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 18.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 98th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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