Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Sherwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mobile
Tract 01097007400 · Mobile County, AL · pop 2,898 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
01097007400 is a census tract in the Sherwood area of Mobile, AL. It scores 5/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,898 residents. 61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Mobile County average of 43.6%.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units1,159
Renter share54.4%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate37.8%
Median income$41,146
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
91
th percentile
Very High
Within county
76
th percentile
High
Within state
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6302, -88.0699 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sherwood scores 5
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
37.8% poverty · this tract
9.5
Supply constraint
$1,023 rent vs county FMR
4.4
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 Sherwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 74%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 1%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.
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)
- 319Total filings over 10 yrs
- 5.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.2%Peak (2009)
- 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 23% over the past 10 months.
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.
- 21.1%Housing insecurity
- 16.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.2%Food insecurity
- 27.1%SNAP enrollment
- 15.1%Transit barriers
- 11.7%No health insurance
- 18.3%Frequent mental distress
- 41.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Sherwood
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.5/10. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.
Food insecurity runs 31.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 27.1% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Mobile County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
The filing record is not thin: 319 evictions over 10 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2009 at 9.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Mobile. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 5.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.5/10.
Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 01097007400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01097007400?
Census tract 01097007400 in the Sherwood neighborhood scores 5/10 (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 01097007400?
Median gross rent is $1,023/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01097007400?
37.8% of residents in tract 01097007400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,898.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01097007400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 73th, minority 74th, housing 52th.
Q5
Is tract 01097007400 considered part of Sherwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01097007400 fall within Sherwood (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01097007400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 319 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 01097007400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.40% of renter households, peaking at 9.2% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 01097007400 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.1% 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. 16.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 01097007400 compare to Mobile overall?
Tract 01097007400 scores 5/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 01097007400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 1% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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