Louisville Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Against Jefferson County at 42.9%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.8/10. Average gross rent is $1,357, 21% above the Louisville average.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,353 filings here across 14 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points below the Jefferson County average of 4.0.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 49.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 25.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $84,688.

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.