Within neighborhood
20
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Highlands Douglass Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Lower , Louisville
Tract 21111009600 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 4,913 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 21111009600 in the Highlands Douglass Neighborhood area of Louisville, KY reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,913 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4%
Stable renters 5%
Owners 91%
Tract context
Occupied units2,032
Renter share9.1%
SVI overall0.13
Poverty rate3.4%
Median income$102,333
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
10
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
34
th percentile
Low
Within state
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.2124, -85.6876 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highlands Douglass Neighborhood scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Louisville
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Kentucky legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
3.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$981 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Louisville
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Louisville
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Louisville
5.0
How Highlands Douglass Neighborhood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 13
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 48%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 57Total filings over 14 yrs
- 4.80%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.0%Peak (2005)
- 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 133% over the past 14 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Highlands Douglass Neighborhood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Highlands Douglass Neighborhood
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Against the Jefferson County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Against Jefferson County at 42.9%, 48% of renters here are cost-burdened.
The filing record is not thin: 57 evictions over 14 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2005, when 18.0% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 4.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Only 9% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.2/10.
Against average income of $102,333, annual rent is just 12%.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 21111009600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 21111009600?
Census tract 21111009600 in the Highlands Douglass Neighborhood neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 21111009600?
Median gross rent is $981/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 21111009600?
3.4% of residents in tract 21111009600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,913.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 21111009600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 13th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 44th, minority 11th, housing 37th.
Q5
Is tract 21111009600 considered part of Highlands Douglass Neighborhood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 21111009600 fall within Highlands Douglass Neighborhood (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 21111009600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 57 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 21111009600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.80% of renter households, peaking at 18.0% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 21111009600 compare to Louisville overall?
Tract 21111009600 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Louisville at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Louisville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 21111009600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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