Parkside Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Matthews

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10.

It sits 1.0 points below the Jefferson County average of 4.0. At $1,156 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of St. Matthews commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 209 filings here across 14 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 7.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 4.0% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $87,400, annual rent is just 16%.

Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.