Louisville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 21111012503 · Jefferson County, KY · pop 3,634 · 86% of tract blocks fall in Louisville
Census tract 21111012503 covers Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), home to 3,634 residents. For landlords it grades 5.5/10, a moderate reading. It lands near the 57th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 66% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 55% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $762 monthly, set against $58,137 in average yearly household income, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 25% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Louisville and the region
Centroid at 38.1731, -85.8475 · click any tract to drill in
Why Louisville scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Louisville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 63%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
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)
- 1,352Total filings over 14 yrs
- 18.21%Avg annual filing rate
- 26.9%Peak (2011)
- 88Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Louisville
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 4.5/10. 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/Jefferson County metro government (balance), 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.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 81st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,352 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 18.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 26.9% of renter households in 2011.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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