Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Highland Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 01117030216 · Shelby County, AL · pop 8,297 · 58% of tract blocks fall in Highland Lakes
Tract 01117030216 sits in Highland Lakes, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Cost burden runs 59% here against 40.0% across Shelby County.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 7%
Owners 83%
Tract context
Occupied units3,192
Renter share16.5%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate5.3%
Median income$135,779
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
32
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Highland Lakes and the region
Centroid at 33.4007, -86.6504 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Lakes scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Highland Lakes
3.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.0
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
5.3% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,409 rent vs county FMR
6.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Highland Lakes
1.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Highland Lakes
1.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Highland Lakes
1.1
How Highland Lakes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 14%Socioeconomic
- 14%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
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)
- 140Total filings over 7 yrs
- 12.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.1%Peak (2014)
- 18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 6.2%Housing insecurity
- 4.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.7%Food insecurity
- 4.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 4.8%No health insurance
- 12.6%Frequent mental distress
- 25.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Highland Lakes
Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.1/10.
Running cool, housing-court posture reads 1.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10. SNAP participation runs 4.5% against 15.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,409, 17% above the Highland Lakes average. The filing record is not thin: 140 evictions over 7 years of observation.
Against the Shelby County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. The worst year on record was 2014, when 10.1% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 12.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 01117030216
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01117030216?
Census tract 01117030216 in Highland Lakes scores 3/10 (Lower 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 01117030216?
Median gross rent is $1,409/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01117030216?
5.3% of residents in tract 01117030216 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,297.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01117030216?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 14th, household 14th, minority 23th, housing 17th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01117030216?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 140 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 01117030216 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.33% of renter households, peaking at 10.1% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 01117030216 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.2% 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. 4.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 01117030216 compare to Highland Lakes overall?
Tract 01117030216 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Highland Lakes at 3.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Highland Lakes; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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