Orange Grove Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mobile
Tract 01097000401 · Mobile County, AL · pop 1,523 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Orange Grove in Mobile is where census tract 01097000401 sits, home to 1,523 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.1/10. That is riskier than about 44% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 60% of renter households, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $994 monthly, set against $31,632 in average yearly household income, roughly 38% of income at the averages. About 68% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6993, -88.0592 · click any tract to drill in
Why Orange Grove scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Orange Grove compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 82%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)
- 307Total filings over 10 yrs
- 6.59%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.1%Peak (2002)
- 12Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Orange Grove. 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.
- 39.7%Housing insecurity
- 34.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 58.1%Food insecurity
- 59.2%SNAP enrollment
- 29.2%Transit barriers
- 17.3%No health insurance
- 22.1%Frequent mental distress
- 52.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Orange Grove
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.3/10. 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 Mobile eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Mobile County average of 4.9 and above the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 75th 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 307 eviction filings here over 10 tracked years, with about 6.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 17.1% of renter households in 2002.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 01097000401
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Highest-risk tracts in Mobile
Top eight tracts in Mobile ranked by composite eviction-risk score.