Russell Eviction Risk: Moderate , Louisville
Tract 21111002300 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 1,857 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 21111002300 covers part of the Russell area of Louisville, KY, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,857. The severe-burden share is 38%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.2615, -85.7825 · click any tract to drill in
Why Russell scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Russell compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%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
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 97%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.
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)
- 1,230Total filings over 14 yrs
- 15.50%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.3%Peak (2013)
- 74Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Russell. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Russell
The dominant input is economic stress at 9.7/10. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.2/10.
Set annual rent against average income of $30,500 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. Cost burden runs 51% here against 42.9% across Jefferson County.
It sits 1.4 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.0. At $855 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Louisville commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,230 filings here across 14 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 17.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 15.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.4/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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