Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Bywater Eviction Risk: Moderate , New Orleans
Tract 22071000701 · Orleans Parish, LA · pop 940 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Census tract 22071000701 covers part of the Bywater area of New Orleans, LA, and scores 5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 940. The severe-burden share is 38%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units349
Renter share49.6%
SVI overall0.69
Poverty rate9.3%
Median income$40,313
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
38
th percentile
Low
Within county
38
th percentile
Low
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across New Orleans and the region
Centroid at 29.9718, -90.0217 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bywater scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from New Orleans
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.4
State political climate
Louisiana legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
9.3% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$951 rent vs county FMR
1.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from New Orleans
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from New Orleans
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from New Orleans
4.5
How Bywater compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 4%Grade C
- 23%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)
- 23Total filings over 7 yrs
- 3.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.8%Peak (2012)
- 6Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 100% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 56Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked New Orleans, LA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bywater. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 32.3%Housing insecurity
- 27.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 43.0%Food insecurity
- 43.2%SNAP enrollment
- 21.3%Transit barriers
- 10.9%No health insurance
- 22.5%Frequent mental distress
- 43.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bywater
Food insecurity runs 43.0% against 17.8% nationally. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.4/10.
Housing insecurity runs 32.3% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.4/10.
Average gross rent is $951, 24% below the New Orleans average. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 23 filings here across 7 tracked years. Cost burden runs 47% here against 51.4% across Orleans Parish.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 6.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for New Orleans. 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 3.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 22071000701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 22071000701?
Census tract 22071000701 in the Bywater neighborhood scores 5/10 (Moderate 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 22071000701?
Median gross rent is $951/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 22071000701?
9.3% of residents in tract 22071000701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 940.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 22071000701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 69th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 61th, minority 97th, housing 36th.
Q5
Is tract 22071000701 considered part of Bywater?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 22071000701 fall within Bywater (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 22071000701?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 23 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 22071000701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.91% of renter households, peaking at 6.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 22071000701 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (New Orleans eviction risk, LA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 22071000701 struggle to pay rent?
About 32.3% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 27.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 22071000701 compare to New Orleans overall?
Tract 22071000701 scores 5/10, lower than the parent city of New Orleans at 5.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from New Orleans eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 22071000701 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 23% 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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