Highlands Douglass Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Lower , Louisville
Tract 21111009600 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 4,913 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 21111009600 (the Highlands Douglass Neighborhood neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky) comes in at 5.5/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 57% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 48% of renter households, a severe level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $981 monthly, set against $102,333 in average yearly household income, roughly 12% of income at the averages. About 9% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
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Why Highlands Douglass Neighborhood scores 2.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Highlands Douglass Neighborhood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.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
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.
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)
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What drives eviction risk in Highlands Douglass Neighborhood
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 5.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. 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 57 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 4.8% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 18.0% of renter households in 2005.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 13th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 21111009600
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