Carlen Eviction Risk: Lower , Mobile
Tract 01097002501 · Mobile County, AL · pop 3,587 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
The Carlen neighborhood of Mobile anchors census tract 01097002501, which lands at 4.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #71,809 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 32% of renter households, a high level, and 15% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,135 a month while the average household earns $115,663 a year, roughly 12% of income at the averages. Renters make up 26% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6798, -88.0933 · click any tract to drill in
Why Carlen scores 2.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Carlen compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 0
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 6%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 16%Racial/ethnic minority
- 1%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 2%Grade A
- 14%Grade B
- 30%Grade C
- 3%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)
- 137Total filings over 10 yrs
- 2.53%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.3%Peak (2006)
- 17Filings 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.
- 6.0%Housing insecurity
- 3.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.6%Food insecurity
- 3.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.3%Transit barriers
- 4.8%No health insurance
- 13.1%Frequent mental distress
- 20.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Carlen
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 5.4/10. 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 below the Mobile County average of 4.9 and below the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 0th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
Part of this tract, about 3% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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