Within neighborhood
84
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Saint Roch Eviction Risk: Elevated , New Orleans
Tract 22071002900 · Orleans Parish, LA · pop 941 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 22071002900 covers part of the Saint Roch area of New Orleans, LA, and scores 6.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 941 residents. Set annual rent against average income of $23,163 and the ratio lands at 65%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 36%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units428
Renter share58.2%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate32.7%
Median income$23,163
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
93
th percentile
Very High
Within county
91
th percentile
Very High
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across New Orleans and the region
Centroid at 29.9758, -90.0610 · click any tract to drill in
Why Saint Roch scores 6.7
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
32.7% poverty · this tract
8.2
Supply constraint
$1,261 rent vs county FMR
3.5
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 Saint Roch compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 14%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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 237Total filings over 8 yrs
- 15.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 32.6%Peak (2008)
- 8Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 78% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 141Total filings 2020-21
- 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.17×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near 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 Saint Roch. 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.
- 30.5%Housing insecurity
- 25.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 39.4%Food insecurity
- 38.5%SNAP enrollment
- 19.7%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 22.8%Frequent mental distress
- 41.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Saint Roch
The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. SNAP participation runs 38.5% against 15.2% nationally.
Cost burden runs 39% here against 51.4% across Orleans Parish. The dominant input is regional political climate at 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Housing insecurity runs 30.5% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.2/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10.
It sits 1.3 points above the Orleans Parish average of 5.4. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 237 filings here across 8 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2008, when 32.6% of renter households were served.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 22071002900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 22071002900?
Census tract 22071002900 in the Saint Roch neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (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 22071002900?
Median gross rent is $1,261/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 22071002900?
32.7% of residents in tract 22071002900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 941.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 22071002900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 33th, minority 90th, housing 14th.
Q5
Is tract 22071002900 considered part of Saint Roch?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 22071002900 fall within Saint Roch (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 22071002900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 237 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 22071002900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.16% of renter households, peaking at 32.6% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 22071002900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.17× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (New Orleans eviction risk, LA), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 22071002900 struggle to pay rent?
About 30.5% 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. 25.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 22071002900 compare to New Orleans overall?
Tract 22071002900 scores 6.7/10, 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.
Q10
Was tract 22071002900 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. 100% 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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