Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #42,813 of 84,120 nationally
Highland Home Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lincoln
Tract 31109001400 · Lancaster County, NE · pop 4,408 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 31109001400 sits in the Highland Home area of Lincoln eviction risk, NE, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.4/10. It is home to 4,408 residents. 22% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Lancaster County average of 43.9%.
Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units2,012
Renter share33.8%
SVI overall0.48
Poverty rate14.4%
Median income$60,275
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
67
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
70
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Lincoln and the region
Centroid at 40.8064, -96.6533 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Home scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Lincoln
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.4
State political climate
Nebraska legislature & governorship
1.8
Economic stress
14.4% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$664 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lincoln
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lincoln
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lincoln
3.0
How Highland Home compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 48
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 30%Grade A
- 20%Grade B
- 45%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 231Total filings over 14 yrs
- 2.11%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.9%Peak (2015)
- 13Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 32% over the past 14 months.
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.
- 10.3%Housing insecurity
- 7.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 11.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 15.1%Frequent mental distress
- 30.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Highland Home
At $664 a month, rents run 39% under what the rest of Lincoln commands. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The filing record is not thin: 231 evictions over 14 years of observation.
Against the Lancaster County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points. Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.9% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 5.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $60,275, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 31109001400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 31109001400?
Census tract 31109001400 in the Highland Home neighborhood scores 4.4/10 (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 31109001400?
Median gross rent is $664/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 22% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 31109001400?
14.4% of residents in tract 31109001400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,408.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 31109001400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 48th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 30th, household 73th, minority 23th, housing 65th.
Q5
Is tract 31109001400 considered part of Highland Home?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 31109001400 fall within Highland Home (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 31109001400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 231 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 31109001400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.11% of renter households, peaking at 3.9% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 31109001400 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.3% 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. 7.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 31109001400 compare to Lincoln overall?
Tract 31109001400 scores 4.4/10, higher than the parent city of Lincoln at 3.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lincoln eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 31109001400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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