Within neighborhood
80
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
French Market Eviction Risk: Moderate , New Orleans
Tract 22071003800 · Orleans Parish, LA · pop 1,198 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 22071003800 in the French Market area of New Orleans, LA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,198 residents. Severe burden reaches 43%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 50%
Tract context
Occupied units792
Renter share50.0%
SVI overall0.26
Poverty rate15.5%
Median income$54,167
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across New Orleans and the region
Centroid at 29.9606, -90.0601 · click any tract to drill in
Why French Market scores 5.2
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
15.5% poverty · this tract
3.9
Supply constraint
$1,519 rent vs county FMR
5.3
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 French Market compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 22%Socioeconomic
- 23%Household composition
- 26%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%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
- 5%Grade C
- 31%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)
- 128Total filings over 8 yrs
- 3.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2009)
- 6Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 60% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 95Total filings 2020-21
- 1.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.99×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 French Market. 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.
- 6.2%Housing insecurity
- 4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.0%Food insecurity
- 4.7%SNAP enrollment
- 4.4%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 26.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in French Market
The dominant input is regional political climate at 8.4/10. Set annual rent against average income of $54,167 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. At $1,519 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of New Orleans commands. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.
Food insecurity runs 7.0% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 128 eviction filings across 8 observed years. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Orleans Parish average of 51.4%.
Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2009, when 5.4% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 22071003800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 22071003800?
Census tract 22071003800 in the French Market neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (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 22071003800?
Median gross rent is $1,519/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 22071003800?
15.5% of residents in tract 22071003800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,198.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 22071003800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 26th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 23th, minority 26th, housing 52th.
Q5
Is tract 22071003800 considered part of French Market?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 22071003800 fall within French Market (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 22071003800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 128 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 22071003800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.28% of renter households, peaking at 5.4% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 22071003800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.99× 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 22071003800 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.2% 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. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 22071003800 compare to New Orleans overall?
Tract 22071003800 scores 5.2/10, right in line with 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 22071003800 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. 31% 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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