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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Read Blvd East Eviction Risk: Elevated , New Orleans

Tract 22071001754 · Orleans Parish, LA · pop 3,608 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

Census tract 22071001754 covers part of the Read Blvd East area of New Orleans, LA, and scores 6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,608 residents. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 16% Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,462
Renter share45.9%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate21.0%
Median income$41,068

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Read Blvd East
Moderate
Within parent city
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#75 of 184 tracts In New Orleans
Elevated
Within county
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#77 of 184 tracts In Orleans Parish
Elevated
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#135 of 1,379 tracts In Louisiana
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across New Orleans and the region

Centroid at 30.0442, -89.9871 · click any tract to drill in

Why Read Blvd East scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
21.0% poverty · this tract
5.2
Supply constraint
$866 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Read Blvd East compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Read Blvd East risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 0017545.3New Orleansparent city5.4Countyavg tract in county4.4Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 328Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-03-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Read Blvd East. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Read Blvd East

65% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Orleans Parish average of 51.4%. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.

At $866 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of New Orleans commands. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.4/10. Food insecurity runs 33.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 22071001754

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 22071001754?

Census tract 22071001754 in the Read Blvd East neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated 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 22071001754?

Median gross rent is $866/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 22071001754?

21.0% of residents in tract 22071001754 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,608.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 22071001754?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 76th, minority 99th, housing 77th.
Q5

Is tract 22071001754 considered part of Read Blvd East?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 22071001754 fall within Read Blvd East (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 22071001754 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.
Q7

What share of households in tract 22071001754 struggle to pay rent?

About 25.8% 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. 20.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 22071001754 compare to New Orleans overall?

Tract 22071001754 scores 6/10, higher 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in New Orleans

Top eight tracts in New Orleans ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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