Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Garden District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Montgomery
Tract 01101000200 · Montgomery County, AL · pop 1,462 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 01101000200 covers part of the Garden District area of Montgomery, AL, and scores 5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,462 residents. Food insecurity runs 40.5% against 17.8% nationally.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30%
Stable renters 52%
Owners 18%
Tract context
Occupied units443
Renter share82.6%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate36.2%
Median income$41,292
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
69
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
80
th percentile
High
Within state
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Montgomery and the region
Centroid at 32.3720, -86.3088 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garden District scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Montgomery
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
36.2% poverty · this tract
9.1
Supply constraint
$837 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Montgomery
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Montgomery
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Montgomery
3.0
How Garden District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%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
- 93%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)
- 294Total filings over 9 yrs
- 7.96%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.3%Peak (2001)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 79% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Garden District. 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.
- 28.2%Housing insecurity
- 20.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.5%Food insecurity
- 35.1%SNAP enrollment
- 20.1%Transit barriers
- 19.0%No health insurance
- 19.1%Frequent mental distress
- 49.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Garden District
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.1/10. This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Average gross rent is $837, 23% below the Montgomery average. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Montgomery County average of 42.8%.
Against the Montgomery County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 294 filings here across 9 tracked years.
Adults with no health insurance runs 19.0% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2001 at 13.3% of renter households.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 01101000200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01101000200?
Census tract 01101000200 in the Garden District 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 01101000200?
Median gross rent is $837/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01101000200?
36.2% of residents in tract 01101000200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,462.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01101000200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 68th, minority 86th, housing 88th.
Q5
Is tract 01101000200 considered part of Garden District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01101000200 fall within Garden District (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01101000200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 294 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 01101000200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.96% of renter households, peaking at 13.3% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 01101000200 struggle to pay rent?
About 28.2% 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. 20.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 01101000200 compare to Montgomery overall?
Tract 01101000200 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Montgomery at 3.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Montgomery eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 01101000200 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. 93% 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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