Happy Holler Eviction Risk: Moderate , Knoxville

33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $27,994, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against Knox County at 40.9%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened. Disability prevalence runs 45.6% against 31.5% nationally.

At $914 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Knoxville commands. Against the Knox County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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