Sherwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mobile
Tract 01097007400 · Mobile County, AL · pop 2,898 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 01097007400 (the Sherwood area of Mobile, Alabama) comes in at 5.6/10, the Moderate tier. It lands near the 63rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 61% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 27% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,023 monthly, set against $41,146 in average yearly household income, roughly 30% of income at the averages. Renters make up 54% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Mobile and the region
Centroid at 30.6302, -88.0699 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sherwood scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sherwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.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
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.
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)
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
What drives eviction risk in Sherwood
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.5/10. 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 above 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 21.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 72nd 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.
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Top eight tracts in Mobile ranked by composite eviction-risk score.