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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 51% Stable renters 28% Owners 21%
Tract context
Occupied units532
Renter share78.9%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate47.6%
Median income$24,028

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In North Memphis
Very High
Within parent city
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#14 of 197 tracts In Memphis
Very High
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#65 of 249 tracts In Shelby County
Elevated
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#39 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
Very High
Geographic context

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-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
47.6% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$966 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 North Memphis compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
North Memphis risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0004004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

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)

  • 333Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 5.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.86×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within North Memphis. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 47157000400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157000400?

Census tract 47157000400 in the North Memphis neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 47157000400?

Median gross rent is $966/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157000400?

47.6% of residents in tract 47157000400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,438.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157000400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 83th, minority 99th, housing 88th.
Q5

Is tract 47157000400 considered part of North Memphis?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157000400 fall within North Memphis (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157000400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.86× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 47157000400 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157000400 scores 5.4/10, higher 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 47157000400 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. 60% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Memphis

Top eight tracts in Memphis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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