Suburban Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mobile
Tract 01097006802 · Mobile County, AL · pop 3,161 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 01097006802 covers Suburban Heights in Mobile in Alabama. Home to 3,161 residents, it scores 4.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 37% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 65% of renter households, a severe level, and 49% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,018 a month against an average household income of $52,974 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.5986, -88.1816 · click any tract to drill in
Why Suburban Heights scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Suburban Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%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)
- 173Total filings over 10 yrs
- 4.51%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.6%Peak (2014)
- 25Filings 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.
- 13.7%Housing insecurity
- 9.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.8%Food insecurity
- 14.0%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 11.1%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 38.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Suburban Heights
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 4.3/10. 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 White and ranks around the 65th 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 173 eviction filings here over 10 tracked years, with about 4.5% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.6% of renter households in 2014.
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.