North Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157000400 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,438 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 47157000400 in the North Memphis area of Memphis, TN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,438. Severe burden reaches 45%. 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 Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1769, -90.0145 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Memphis scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow North Memphis compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%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
- 8%Grade C
- 60%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)
- 333Total filings 2020-21
- 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.86×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within North Memphis. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in North Memphis
The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. roughly two in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Shelby County average of 48.3%. The poverty rate is 48%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Set annual rent against average income of $24,028 and the ratio lands at 48%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Disability prevalence runs 54.0% against 31.5% nationally.
79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. At $966 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Memphis commands. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Memphis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 47157000400
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