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Neighborhood · Ranked #59,654 of 84,120 nationally

Harbor Town Eviction Risk: Lower , Memphis

Tract 47157000100 · Shelby County, TN · pop 5,173 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Tract 47157000100 sits in the Harbor Town area of Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.4/10. Population here is 5,173. Average gross rent is $1,679, 42% above the Memphis average.

Risk score
3.4
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33% Stable renters 31% Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units3,245
Renter share64.3%
SVI overall0.18
Poverty rate9.7%
Median income$70,060

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Harbor Town
Very Low
Within parent city
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#153 of 197 tracts In Memphis
Low
Within county
36 th percentile
Rank, 36th percentileLowHigh
#161 of 249 tracts In Shelby County
Low
Within state
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#960 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Memphis and the region

Centroid at 35.1746, -90.0518 · click any tract to drill in

Why Harbor Town scores 3.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Memphis
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Tennessee legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
9.7% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,679 rent vs county FMR
7.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Memphis
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Memphis
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Memphis
4.5

How Harbor Town compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Harbor Town risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.4This tracttract 0001004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 18

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 465Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.30×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Harbor Town. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Harbor Town

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. 22% 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, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

The voucher gap is 23.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10.

It sits 0.9 points below the Shelby County average of 4.3. 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 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.7/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 52% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $70,060. 64% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 47157000100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157000100?

Census tract 47157000100 in the Harbor Town neighborhood scores 3.4/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 47157000100?

Median gross rent is $1,679/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157000100?

9.7% of residents in tract 47157000100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,173.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157000100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 18th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 15th, household 2th, minority 45th, housing 72th.
Q5

Is tract 47157000100 considered part of Harbor Town?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157000100 fall within Harbor Town (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157000100 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.30× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 47157000100 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157000100 scores 3.4/10, lower than the parent city of Memphis at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Memphis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 47157000100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 22% 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.
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