Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Highland Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower , Tuscaloosa
Tract 01125010203 · Tuscaloosa County, AL · pop 3,288 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 01125010203 sits in the Highland Lakes area of Tuscaloosa eviction risk, AL, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Population here is 3,288. Severe burden reaches 40%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 81%
Tract context
Occupied units1,432
Renter share19.4%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate11.7%
Median income$95,942
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
13
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
24
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Tuscaloosa and the region
Centroid at 33.3232, -87.5660 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Lakes scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Tuscaloosa
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Alabama legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
11.7% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$600 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Tuscaloosa
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Tuscaloosa
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Tuscaloosa
2.5
How Highland Lakes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 14%Racial/ethnic minority
- 8%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)
- 8Total filings over 6 yrs
- 1.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2013)
- 2Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 100% over the past 6 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.
- 8.1%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 6.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 7.8%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 32.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Highland Lakes
At $600 a month, rents run 43% under what the rest of Tuscaloosa commands. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. It sits 1.1 points below the Tuscaloosa County average of 4.1.
SNAP participation runs 6.4% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 8 filings here across 6 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 1.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Only 19% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 01125010203
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 01125010203?
Census tract 01125010203 in the Highland Lakes neighborhood 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 01125010203?
Median gross rent is $600/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 01125010203?
11.7% of residents in tract 01125010203 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,288.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 01125010203?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 15th, minority 14th, housing 8th.
Q5
Is tract 01125010203 considered part of Highland Lakes?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 01125010203 fall within Highland Lakes (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 01125010203?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 8 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 01125010203 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.44% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 01125010203 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.1% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 01125010203 compare to Tuscaloosa overall?
Tract 01125010203 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Tuscaloosa at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Tuscaloosa eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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