Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Howell Station Eviction Risk: Lower , Atlanta
Tract 13121000700 · Fulton County, GA · pop 2,897 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 13121000700 covers part of the Howell Station area of Atlanta, GA, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 33%. 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 15%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units392
Renter share32.9%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate8.1%
Median income$147,045
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
7
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
27
th percentile
Low
Within state
24
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Atlanta and the region
Centroid at 33.7801, -84.4234 · click any tract to drill in
Why Howell Station 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
8.1% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,859 rent vs county FMR
5.2
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.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 9%Household composition
- 78%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 48%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)
- 73Total filings over 5 yrs
- 12.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.0%Peak (2014)
- 16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 60% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 917Total filings 2020-21
- 12.1Avg 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 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.
- 21.2%Housing insecurity
- 12.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.4%Food insecurity
- 15.8%SNAP enrollment
- 12.6%Transit barriers
- 16.8%No health insurance
- 18.4%Frequent mental distress
- 26.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Howell Station
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.6/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the Fulton County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.
The filing record is not thin: 73 evictions over 5 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2014, when 15.0% of renter households were served.
At $1,859 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Atlanta commands. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Atlanta. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 12.7% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $147,045, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 13121000700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13121000700?
Census tract 13121000700 in the Howell Station 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 13121000700?
Median gross rent is $1,859/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 13121000700?
8.1% of residents in tract 13121000700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,897.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 13121000700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 82th, household 9th, minority 78th, housing 59th.
Q5
Is tract 13121000700 considered part of Howell Station?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 13121000700 fall within Howell Station (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 13121000700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 73 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 13121000700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.73% of renter households, peaking at 15.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 13121000700 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.2% 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. 12.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 13121000700 compare to Atlanta overall?
Tract 13121000700 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 13121000700 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. 48% 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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