Little Kurdistan Eviction Risk: Moderate , Nashville
Tract 47037017402 · Davidson County, TN · pop 5,440 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
47037017402 is a census tract in the Little Kurdistan area of Nashville, TN. It scores 5.2/10 for landlords. Population here is 5,440. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Nashville and the region
Centroid at 36.1006, -86.7269 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little Kurdistan scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Little Kurdistan compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%Housing & transportation
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
- 31%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.
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)
- 862Total filings 2020-21
- 11.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.60×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Nashville, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Little Kurdistan. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Little Kurdistan
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.7/10. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
Against the Davidson County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10.
40% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Davidson County average of 46.0%. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.
Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,524, close to the Nashville average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $79,028.
56% 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.
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