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Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally

Merrimack Mill Village Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Huntsville

Tract 01089002200 · Madison County, AL · pop 1,911 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Tract 01089002200 sits in the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District area of Huntsville eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. Population here is 1,911. Severe burden reaches 41%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34% Stable renters 20% Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units788
Renter share53.9%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate40.0%
Median income$32,663

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 5 tracts In Merrimack Mill Village Historic District
High
Within parent city
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#16 of 70 tracts In Huntsville
High
Within county
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 95 tracts In Madison County
High
Within state
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#308 of 1,436 tracts In Alabama
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Huntsville and the region

Centroid at 34.7165, -86.6299 · click any tract to drill in

Why Merrimack Mill Village Historic District scores 4.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
40.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$994 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Merrimack Mill Village Historic District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Merrimack Mill Village Historic District risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.84.8This tracttract 002200Huntsville: 3.43.4Huntsvilleparent cityCounty: 3.73.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.04.0Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 99

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 414Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 5.71%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.3%Peak (2015)
  • 32Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 010890022002001: 23 filings (4.36/100 renter HHs)2002: 27 filings (5.11/100 renter HHs)2005: 20 filings (3.91/100 renter HHs)2007: 35 filings (6.84/100 renter HHs)2008: 41 filings (8.02/100 renter HHs)2009: 33 filings (6.45/100 renter HHs)2010: 23 filings (4.40/100 renter HHs)2011: 33 filings (5.34/100 renter HHs)2012: 34 filings (5.50/100 renter HHs)2013: 31 filings (5.02/100 renter HHs)2014: 37 filings (5.99/100 renter HHs)2015: 45 filings (7.28/100 renter HHs)2016: 32 filings (5.98/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 39% over the past 13 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Merrimack Mill Village Historic District. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Merrimack Mill Village Historic District

Cost burden runs 64% here against 39.4% across Madison County. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $32,663 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Against the Madison County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Housing insecurity runs 23.0% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 414 filings here across 13 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $994, 15% below the Huntsville average. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.6% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 7.3% of renter households.

In a typical year about 5.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 01089002200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01089002200?

Census tract 01089002200 in the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (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 01089002200?

Median gross rent is $994/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 01089002200?

40.0% of residents in tract 01089002200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,911.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 01089002200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 85th, minority 65th, housing 100th.
Q5

Is tract 01089002200 considered part of Merrimack Mill Village Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01089002200 fall within Merrimack Mill Village Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01089002200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 414 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 01089002200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.71% of renter households, peaking at 7.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 01089002200 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.0% 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. 16.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 01089002200 compare to Huntsville overall?

Tract 01089002200 scores 4.8/10, higher 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Huntsville

Top eight tracts in Huntsville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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