Russell Eviction Risk: Moderate , Louisville

The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.2/10.

The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $29,561 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Against the Jefferson County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Average gross rent is $826, 18% below the Louisville average.

Court records carry 1,150 eviction filings across 14 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 18.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 15.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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