Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
French Quarter Eviction Risk: Moderate , New Orleans
Tract 22071013501 · Orleans Parish, LA · pop 1,109 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
22071013501 is a census tract in the French Quarter area of New Orleans, LA. It scores 4.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,109 residents. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units793
Renter share56.6%
SVI overall0.53
Poverty rate16.0%
Median income$76,215
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
34
th percentile
Low
Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across New Orleans and the region
Centroid at 29.9588, -90.0680 · click any tract to drill in
Why French Quarter scores 4.8
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
16.0% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$1,493 rent vs county FMR
5.1
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 Quarter compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 53
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 19%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%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
- 52%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 156Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.24×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 French Quarter. 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.
- 8.8%Housing insecurity
- 6.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.3%Food insecurity
- 7.5%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 27.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in French Quarter
What pushes it up most is regional political climate at 8.4/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.
Average gross rent is $1,493, 19% above the New Orleans average. 46% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Orleans Parish average of 51.4%.
SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally.
Against the Orleans Parish average of 5.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $76,215.
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 22071013501
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 22071013501?
Census tract 22071013501 in the French Quarter neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (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 22071013501?
Median gross rent is $1,493/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 22071013501?
16.0% of residents in tract 22071013501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,109.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 22071013501?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 53th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 2th, minority 19th, housing 84th.
Q5
Is tract 22071013501 considered part of French Quarter?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 22071013501 fall within French Quarter (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 22071013501 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.24× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (New Orleans eviction risk, LA), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 22071013501 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.8% 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. 6.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 22071013501 compare to New Orleans overall?
Tract 22071013501 scores 4.8/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 22071013501 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. 52% 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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