Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.7/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.1/10.

It sits 0.9 points below the Davidson County average of 3.9. At $1,746 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Nashville commands.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 3.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. 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.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $112,583.

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.