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Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Howell Station Eviction Risk: Moderate , Atlanta

Tract 13121000601 · Fulton County, GA · pop 4,626 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

With a score of 5.7/10, tract 13121000601 in the Howell Station area of Atlanta, GA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,626 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40% Stable renters 53% Owners 7%
Tract context
Occupied units1,976
Renter share93.3%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate25.8%
Median income$78,140

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Howell Station
Very High
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#37 of 180 tracts In Atlanta
High
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#60 of 327 tracts In Fulton County
High
Within state
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#210 of 2,791 tracts In Georgia
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Atlanta and the region

Centroid at 33.7834, -84.4073 · click any tract to drill in

Why Howell Station scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
25.8% poverty · this tract
6.5
Supply constraint
$1,900 rent vs county FMR
5.4
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 Howell Station compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Howell Station risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.7This tracttract 0006014.3Atlantaparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 62

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 2,234Total filings 2020-21
  • 29.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Howell Station. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Howell Station

93% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Fulton County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

Cost burden runs 43% here against 46.8% across Fulton County. At $1,900 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Atlanta commands.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $78,140.

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 13121000601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13121000601?

Census tract 13121000601 in the Howell Station neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 13121000601?

Median gross rent is $1,900/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 13121000601?

25.8% of residents in tract 13121000601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,626.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 13121000601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 1th, minority 69th, housing 97th.
Q5

Is tract 13121000601 considered part of Howell Station?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 13121000601 fall within Howell Station (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 13121000601 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.2% 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. 7.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 13121000601 compare to Atlanta overall?

Tract 13121000601 scores 5.7/10, higher 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.
Q8

Was tract 13121000601 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. 67% 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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