Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Buckhead Eviction Risk: Lower , Atlanta
Tract 13121009501 · Fulton County, GA · pop 3,491 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 13121009501 sits in the Buckhead area of Atlanta eviction risk, GA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Against Fulton County at 46.8%, 23% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 83%
Tract context
Occupied units1,745
Renter share16.9%
SVI overall0.02
Poverty rate2.8%
Median income$157,201
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
20
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
3
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
24
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Atlanta and the region
Centroid at 33.8308, -84.3963 · click any tract to drill in
Why Buckhead 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
2.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,333 rent vs county FMR
7.7
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 Buckhead compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 2
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 0%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 18%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 68%Grade A
- 8%Grade B
- 1%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)
- 133Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.0%Peak (2001)
- 23Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 38% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 504Total filings 2020-21
- 6.6Avg 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 Buckhead. 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.
- 3.8%Housing insecurity
- 2.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 3.7%Food insecurity
- 2.1%SNAP enrollment
- 2.9%Transit barriers
- 4.5%No health insurance
- 10.6%Frequent mental distress
- 20.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Buckhead
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10. At $2,333 a month, rents run 36% over what the rest of Atlanta commands. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.
The voucher gap is 27.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Against the Fulton County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.
Housing insecurity runs 3.8% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 133 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2001 at 3.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 5.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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 13121009501
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13121009501?
Census tract 13121009501 in the Buckhead 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 13121009501?
Median gross rent is $2,333/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 13121009501?
2.8% of residents in tract 13121009501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,491.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 13121009501?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 2th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 11th, minority 18th, housing 17th.
Q5
Is tract 13121009501 considered part of Buckhead?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 13121009501 fall within Buckhead (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 13121009501?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 133 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 13121009501 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.28% of renter households, peaking at 3.0% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 13121009501 struggle to pay rent?
About 3.8% 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. 2.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 13121009501 compare to Atlanta overall?
Tract 13121009501 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 13121009501 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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