North Knoxville Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Cost burden runs 45% here against 40.9% across Knox County. Against the Knox County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

At $1,085 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Knoxville commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $64,779.

25% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.