Within parent city
19
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Huntsville Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 01089001801 · Madison County, AL · pop 3,534
With a score of 3/10, tract 01089001801 in Huntsville, AL reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,534. Average gross rent is $1,740, 49% above the Huntsville average.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 5%
Owners 92%
Tract context
Occupied units1,478
Renter share8.3%
SVI overall0.01
Poverty rate1.7%
Median income$151,818
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
13
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Huntsville and the region
Centroid at 34.7351, -86.5437 · click any tract to drill in
Why Huntsville scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Huntsville
3.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.6
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
1.7% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,740 rent vs county FMR
8.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Huntsville
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Huntsville
2.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Huntsville
2.5
How Huntsville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 1
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 1%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 14%Racial/ethnic minority
- 1%Housing & transportation
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)
- 17Total filings over 10 yrs
- 1.59%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.8%Peak (2015)
- 2Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 100% over the past 13 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.
- 4.5%Housing insecurity
- 3.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.9%Food insecurity
- 2.7%SNAP enrollment
- 3.5%Transit barriers
- 4.1%No health insurance
- 11.7%Frequent mental distress
- 24.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Huntsville
The voucher gap is 39.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. On the high side, supply constraint reads 8.9/10.
SNAP participation runs 2.7% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs around a third here against 39.4% across Madison County.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 17 filings here across 10 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.1% against 11.3% nationally.
Against the Madison County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2015 at 1.8% of renter households.
In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01089001801
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01089001801?
Census tract 01089001801 in Huntsville scores 3/10 (Lower 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 01089001801?
Median gross rent is $1,740/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01089001801?
1.7% of residents in tract 01089001801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,534.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01089001801?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 60th, minority 14th, housing 1th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01089001801?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 17 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01089001801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.59% of renter households, peaking at 1.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01089001801 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.5% 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. 3.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01089001801 compare to Huntsville overall?
Tract 01089001801 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Huntsville at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Huntsville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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