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

Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 47037017800 · Davidson County, TN · pop 5,789 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

Tract 47037017800 sits in the Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN area of Nashville eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 5,789 residents. Cost burden runs around a third here against 46.0% across Davidson County.

Risk score

Lower

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 14% Stable renters 32% Owners 54%

Tract context

Occupied units2,924

Renter share45.5%

SVI overall0.01

Poverty rate6.3%

Median income$120,089

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Nashville and the region

Centroid at 36.1121, -86.7923 · click any tract to drill in

Why Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Nashville

6.9

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.6

State political climate

Tennessee legislature & governorship

1.9

Economic stress

6.3% poverty · this tract

1.6

Supply constraint

$1,704 rent vs county FMR

4.3

Rent control risk

Inherited from Nashville

1.7

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

2.3

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Nashville

3.3

Housing court bias

Inherited from Nashville

3.1

How Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 1

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

11%Socioeconomic
1%Household composition
22%Racial/ethnic minority
9%Housing & transportation

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.

53%Grade A
23%Grade B
24%Grade C
0%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.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

56Total filings 2020-21
0.7Avg monthly (observed)
0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
1.33×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Nashville, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.6/10. 21% 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, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.7/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Against the Davidson County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.1/10.

Against average income of $120,089, annual rent is just 17%. 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.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 47037017800

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47037017800?

Census tract 47037017800 in the Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN 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.

What is the average rent in tract 47037017800?

Median gross rent is $1,704/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 47037017800?

6.3% of residents in tract 47037017800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,789.

How socially vulnerable is tract 47037017800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 11th, household 1th, minority 22th, housing 9th.

Is tract 47037017800 considered part of Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47037017800 fall within Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).

Did eviction filings in tract 47037017800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.33× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Nashville eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.

How does tract 47037017800 compare to Nashville overall?

Tract 47037017800 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Nashville at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Nashville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 47037017800 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Nashville

Top eight tracts in Nashville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org