Mobile Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01097003205 · Mobile County, AL · pop 2,289
Here is how census tract 01097003205, in Mobile eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a $1/10 eviction-risk score (Moderate tier) across a population of 2,289. On the national scale it ranks #50,302 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 38% of renter households, a high level, and 29% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $761 a month against an average household income of $28,307 a year, roughly 32% of income at the averages. About 71% 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 30.6610, -88.1416 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mobile scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mobile compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 86
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%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)
- 1,004Total filings over 10 yrs
- 12.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.9%Peak (2002)
- 79Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 29.5%Housing insecurity
- 21.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 41.4%Food insecurity
- 35.6%SNAP enrollment
- 20.5%Transit barriers
- 14.5%No health insurance
- 21.8%Frequent mental distress
- 41.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Mobile
What moves this score most is economic stress at 8.6/10. 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 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 86th 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 29.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 21.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Mobile
Top eight tracts in Mobile ranked by composite eviction-risk score.