Wilder Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Louisville
Tract 21111004100 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 2,190 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 21111004100 belongs to the Wilder Park area of Louisville, Kentucky. It is home to 2,190 residents and scores 5.5/10, a moderate reading for landlords. It lands near the 57th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 28% of renter households, a moderate level, and 5% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $788 a month against an average household income of $36,726 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 62% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.1964, -85.7627 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wilder Park scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wilder Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%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
- 11%Grade B
- 53%Grade C
- 30%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)
- 1,252Total filings over 14 yrs
- 13.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 21.6%Peak (2005)
- 95Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Wilder Park
What moves this score most is economic stress at 6.7/10. 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 Louisville 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 Jefferson County average of 5.5 and above the Kentucky statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,252 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 13.5% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 21.6% of renter households in 2005.
Part of this tract, about 30% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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