South Crichton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mobile
Tract 01097002800 · Mobile County, AL · pop 4,275 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
For landlords sizing up the South Crichton area of Mobile, census tract 01097002800 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 4.6/10. That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 40% of renter households, a severe level, and 10% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $924 a month while the average household earns $47,383 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 65% 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
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Why South Crichton scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow South Crichton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 63%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%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)
- 661Total filings over 10 yrs
- 6.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.3%Peak (2016)
- 94Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within South Crichton. 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.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 15.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.9%Food insecurity
- 25.0%SNAP enrollment
- 15.3%Transit barriers
- 12.7%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 38.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in South Crichton
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 4.6/10. 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 in line with the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 22.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 15.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 71st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 01097002800
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Top eight tracts in Mobile ranked by composite eviction-risk score.