Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #47,371 of 84,120 nationally
Mobile Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01097003301 · Mobile County, AL · pop 2,426
With a score of 4.1/10, tract 01097003301 in Mobile, AL reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,426. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
4.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units1,268
Renter share62.8%
SVI overall0.48
Poverty rate17.3%
Median income$48,680
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
55
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
60
th percentile
Elevated
National
44
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6813, -88.1373 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mobile scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Mobile
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
17.3% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,057 rent vs county FMR
4.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Mobile
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Mobile
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Mobile
3.0
How Mobile compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 48
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 61%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%Housing & transportation
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)
- 464Total filings over 10 yrs
- 4.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.1%Peak (2016)
- 62Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 41% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 14.3%Housing insecurity
- 10.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.2%Food insecurity
- 14.0%SNAP enrollment
- 10.6%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 17.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Mobile
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Cost burden runs 56% here against 43.6% across Mobile County.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 464 filings here across 10 tracked years. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 3/10.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 6.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Mobile County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,057, close to the Mobile average.
Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $48,680.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01097003301
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097003301?
Census tract 01097003301 in Mobile scores 4.1/10 (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 01097003301?
Median gross rent is $1,057/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01097003301?
17.3% of residents in tract 01097003301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,426.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01097003301?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 48th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 61th, household 15th, minority 62th, housing 49th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01097003301?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 464 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01097003301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.68% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01097003301 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.3% 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. 10.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01097003301 compare to Mobile overall?
Tract 01097003301 scores 4.1/10, higher than the parent city of Mobile at 3.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Mobile eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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