Midtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Atlanta
Tract 13121001203 · Fulton County, GA · pop 2,717 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
13121001203 is a census tract in the Midtown area of Atlanta, GA. It scores 4.5/10 for landlords. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Atlanta and the region
Centroid at 33.7735, -84.3805 · click any tract to drill in
Why Midtown scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Midtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 32%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 67%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.
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)
- 644Total filings 2020-21
- 8.5Avg 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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Midtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.2%Food insecurity
- 5.9%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 8.8%No health insurance
- 15.0%Frequent mental distress
- 19.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Midtown
83% 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. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.
Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 5.9% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.2% against 17.8% nationally.
At $1,915 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Atlanta commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
It tracks the Fulton County average of 4.2 closely. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $76,330.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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