Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally
Lakewood Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Atlanta
Tract 13121006702 · Fulton County, GA · pop 1,744 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
13121006702 is a census tract in the Lakewood Heights area of Atlanta, GA. It scores 5.7/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,744 residents. Severe burden reaches 54%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units796
Renter share24.6%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate22.3%
Median income$45,217
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
63
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
91
th percentile
Very High
Within state
93
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Atlanta and the region
Centroid at 33.7022, -84.3955 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lakewood Heights scores 5.7
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
22.3% poverty · this tract
5.6
Supply constraint
$965 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Lakewood Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 47%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 24%Grade C
- 14%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 408Total filings 2020-21
- 5.4Avg 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 Lakewood Heights. 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.
- 27.9%Housing insecurity
- 20.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.4%Food insecurity
- 33.7%SNAP enrollment
- 17.8%Transit barriers
- 16.9%No health insurance
- 20.0%Frequent mental distress
- 36.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lakewood Heights
At $965 a month, rents run 44% under what the rest of Atlanta commands. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.6/10.
Cost burden runs 61% here against 46.8% across Fulton County. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
SNAP participation runs 33.7% against 15.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
Against the Fulton County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.
Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 25% 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.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.3/10.
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 13121006702
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13121006702?
Census tract 13121006702 in the Lakewood Heights 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 13121006702?
Median gross rent is $965/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 13121006702?
22.3% of residents in tract 13121006702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,744.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 13121006702?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 64th, household 47th, minority 93th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 13121006702 considered part of Lakewood Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 13121006702 fall within Lakewood Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
What share of households in tract 13121006702 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.9% 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. 20.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 13121006702 compare to Atlanta overall?
Tract 13121006702 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 13121006702 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 14% 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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