Skip to content
Neighborhood · Ranked #50,654 of 84,120 nationally

Leonidas Eviction Risk: Lower , New Orleans

Tract 22071012800 · Orleans Parish, LA · pop 2,220 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 3.9/10, tract 22071012800 in the Leonidas area of New Orleans, LA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,220. The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 27% Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units973
Renter share45.2%
SVI overall0.56
Poverty rate14.3%
Median income$111,477

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
9 th percentile
Rank, 9th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 12 tracts In Leonidas
Very Low
Within parent city
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#170 of 184 tracts In New Orleans
Very Low
Within county
5 th percentile
Rank, 5th percentileLowHigh
#175 of 184 tracts In Orleans Parish
Very Low
Within state
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#766 of 1,379 tracts In Louisiana
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across New Orleans and the region

Centroid at 29.9553, -90.1176 · click any tract to drill in

Why Leonidas scores 3.9

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
14.3% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,699 rent vs county FMR
6.5
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 Leonidas compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Leonidas risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.9This tracttract 0128005.3New Orleansparent city5.4Countyavg tract in county4.4Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 56

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 47Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 1.33%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.4%Peak (2008)
  • 2Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2006 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 22071012800
Filings dropped 33% over the past 8 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 52Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.72×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 Leonidas. 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 Leonidas

At $1,699 a month, rents run 36% over what the rest of New Orleans commands. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Orleans Parish average of 51.4%.

What pushes it up most is regional political climate at 8.4/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. It sits 1.5 points below the Orleans Parish average of 5.4.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. SNAP participation runs 6.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 47 filings here across 8 tracked years. The voucher gap is 15.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 2.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 1.3% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6/10.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 22071012800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 22071012800?

Census tract 22071012800 in the Leonidas neighborhood scores 3.9/10 (Lower 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 22071012800?

Median gross rent is $1,699/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 22071012800?

14.3% of residents in tract 22071012800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,220.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 22071012800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 56th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 61th, household 19th, minority 57th, housing 67th.
Q5

Is tract 22071012800 considered part of Leonidas?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 22071012800 fall within Leonidas (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 22071012800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 47 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 22071012800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.33% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 22071012800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× 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 22071012800 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.5% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 22071012800 compare to New Orleans overall?

Tract 22071012800 scores 3.9/10, 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 22071012800 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 4% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in New Orleans

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

Related