Decatur Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 01103000400 · Morgan County, AL · pop 3,902
Census tract 01103000400 covers Decatur, home to 3,902 residents. For landlords it grades 3.5/10, a lower reading. That is riskier than about 6% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 19% of renter households, a modest level, and 10% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $839 monthly, set against $56,175 in average yearly household income, roughly 18% of income at the averages. About 44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Decatur and the region
Centroid at 34.6096, -86.9857 · click any tract to drill in
Why Decatur scores 3.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Decatur compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%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)
- 220Total filings over 12 yrs
- 2.21%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.5%Peak (2002)
- 17Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.7%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.6%Food insecurity
- 15.4%SNAP enrollment
- 10.7%Transit barriers
- 13.9%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 39.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Decatur
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 4.1/10. 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 Decatur eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Morgan County average of 4.1 and below the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 44th 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 15.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
About tract 01103000400
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Highest-risk tracts in Decatur
Top eight tracts in Decatur ranked by composite eviction-risk score.