Wyandotte/Oakdale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Louisville
Tract 21111003900 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 3,456 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
21111003900 is a census tract in the Wyandotte/Oakdale area of Louisville, KY. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,456 residents. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.2/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.1992, -85.7882 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wyandotte/Oakdale scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wyandotte/Oakdale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 86
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 63%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.
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)
- 1,461Total filings over 14 yrs
- 16.18%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.4%Peak (2014)
- 105Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wyandotte/Oakdale. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Wyandotte/Oakdale
56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Jefferson County average of 42.9%. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.4 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.0. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.
Court records carry 1,461 eviction filings across 14 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 24.4% 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 16.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.8/10. Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
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.
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