Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN Eviction Risk: Lower

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.7/10. Against Davidson County at 46.0%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 0.9 points below the Davidson County average of 3.9. At $1,434 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Nashville commands.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Nashville. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $130,726, annual rent is just 13%.

Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.