Russell Eviction Risk: Moderate , Louisville

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Against the Jefferson County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,012 filings here across 14 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 25.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Louisville. 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 19.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.8/10. Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.