East Highlands Eviction Risk: Elevated , Columbus
Tract 13215001800 · Muscogee County, GA · pop 1,264 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
The East Highlands area of Columbus is where census tract 13215001800 sits, home to 1,264 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 4.8/10. That is riskier than about 32% of US census tracts.
33% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $699 a month against an average household income of $51,324 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 72% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 32.4769, -84.9758 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Highlands scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Highlands compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%Housing & transportation
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
- 2%Grade B
- 3%Grade C
- 82%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Highlands. 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.
- 21.1%Housing insecurity
- 14.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.3%Food insecurity
- 24.2%SNAP enrollment
- 13.8%Transit barriers
- 16.0%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 34.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in East Highlands
What moves this score most is economic stress at 6.8/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Columbus eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Muscogee County average of 5.0 and below the Georgia statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 82% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 71st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 13215001800
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13215001800?
What is the average rent in tract 13215001800?
What is the poverty rate in tract 13215001800?
How socially vulnerable is tract 13215001800?
Is tract 13215001800 considered part of East Highlands?
What share of households in tract 13215001800 struggle to pay rent?
How does tract 13215001800 compare to Columbus overall?
Was tract 13215001800 historically redlined?
Highest-risk tracts in Columbus
Top eight tracts in Columbus ranked by composite eviction-risk score.