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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Sheridan Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Lincoln

Tract 31109002400 · Lancaster County, NE · pop 3,157 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

31109002400 is a census tract in the Sheridan Park area of Lincoln, NE. It scores 3/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,157 residents. Severe burden reaches 72%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 0% Owners 97%
Tract context
Occupied units1,201
Renter share3.2%
SVI overall0.04
Poverty rate6.0%
Median income$134,173

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Sheridan Park
Moderate
Within parent city
16 th percentile
Rank, 16th percentileLowHigh
#64 of 76 tracts In Lincoln
Very Low
Within county
15 th percentile
Rank, 15th percentileLowHigh
#69 of 81 tracts In Lancaster County
Very Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#360 of 553 tracts In Nebraska
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lincoln and the region

Centroid at 40.7839, -96.6814 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sheridan Park scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
6.0% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Sheridan Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sheridan Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0024003.6Lincolnparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 4

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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)

  • 37Total filings over 14 yrs
  • 2.53%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.1%Peak (2007)
  • 1Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 31109002400
Filings dropped 67% 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sheridan Park

Cost burden runs 100% here against 43.9% across Lancaster County. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Food insecurity runs 5.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 5.6% against 14.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 37 evictions over 14 years of observation. It sits 0.8 points below the Lancaster County average of 3.8.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 7.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lincoln. 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 2.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 3% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.4/10.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 31109002400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 31109002400?

Census tract 31109002400 in the Sheridan Park neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 31109002400?

6.0% of residents in tract 31109002400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,157.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 31109002400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 4th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 42th, minority 7th, housing 7th.
Q4

Is tract 31109002400 considered part of Sheridan Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 31109002400 fall within Sheridan Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 31109002400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 37 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 31109002400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.53% of renter households, peaking at 7.1% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 31109002400 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.6% 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. 3.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 31109002400 compare to Lincoln overall?

Tract 31109002400 scores 3/10, lower 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.
Q8

Was tract 31109002400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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Top eight tracts in Lincoln ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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