Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Lenox Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Atlanta
Tract 13121000100 · Fulton County, GA · pop 5,160 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 13121000100 in the Lenox Park area of Atlanta, GA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,160 residents. Severe burden reaches 41%. 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 26%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units2,540
Renter share40.2%
SVI overall0.22
Poverty rate9.5%
Median income$141,410
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
20
th percentile
Low
Within county
5
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
24
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Atlanta and the region
Centroid at 33.7998, -84.3549 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lenox Park scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Atlanta
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Georgia legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
9.5% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,948 rent vs county FMR
5.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Atlanta
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Atlanta
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Atlanta
4.0
How Lenox Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 41%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 26%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 10%Grade A
- 34%Grade B
- 6%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 90Total filings over 5 yrs
- 3.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.2%Peak (2016)
- 52Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 136% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 534Total filings 2020-21
- 7.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Atlanta, GA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lenox Park. 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.
- 6.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.2%Food insecurity
- 4.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 13.5%Frequent mental distress
- 18.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lenox Park
Against Fulton County at 46.8%, 65% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.6/10.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.
SNAP participation runs 4.0% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 1.2 points below the Fulton County average of 4.2. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 90 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Housing insecurity runs 6.4% against 14.2% nationally. At $1,948 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Atlanta commands. Filings peaked in 2016 at 10.2% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 13121000100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13121000100?
Census tract 13121000100 in the Lenox Park 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 13121000100?
Median gross rent is $1,948/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 13121000100?
9.5% of residents in tract 13121000100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,160.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 13121000100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 22th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 41th, household 3th, minority 26th, housing 45th.
Q5
Is tract 13121000100 considered part of Lenox Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 13121000100 fall within Lenox Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 13121000100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 90 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 13121000100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.82% of renter households, peaking at 10.2% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 13121000100 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.4% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 13121000100 compare to Atlanta overall?
Tract 13121000100 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Atlanta at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Atlanta eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 13121000100 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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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