Little Kurdistan Eviction Risk: Moderate , Nashville
Tract 47037018901 · Davidson County, TN · pop 2,949 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 47037018901 sits in the Little Kurdistan area of Nashville eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.3/10. Severe burden reaches 33%. 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 36.0842, -86.7415 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little Kurdistan scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Little Kurdistan compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 39%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%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
- 11%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)
- 285Total filings 2020-21
- 3.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.87×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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
At $988 a month, rents run 38% under what the rest of Nashville commands. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.7/10.
This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Davidson County average of 3.9 closely.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $57,143.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 47037018901
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