Little Kurdistan Eviction Risk: Moderate , Nashville
Tract 47037017500 · Davidson County, TN · pop 2,721 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
47037017500 is a census tract in the Little Kurdistan area of Nashville, TN. It scores 4.8/10 for landlords. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Nashville and the region
Centroid at 36.1012, -86.7436 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little Kurdistan scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Little Kurdistan compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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
- 100%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)
- 112Total filings 2020-21
- 1.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.87×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
Against Davidson County at 46.0%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,256, 21% below the Nashville average.
The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Davidson County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
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