Crosstown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157000700 · Shelby County, TN · pop 3,793 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
47157000700 is a census tract in the Crosstown area of Memphis, TN. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. The severe-burden share is 40%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1673, -89.9958 · click any tract to drill in
Why Crosstown scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Crosstown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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
- 8%Grade B
- 29%Grade C
- 63%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)
- 2,112Total filings 2020-21
- 27.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 33.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.82×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 Crosstown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Crosstown
The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.3/10. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $29,448, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $860, 27% below the Memphis average.
Disability prevalence runs 44.7% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Shelby County average of 48.3%. 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.
Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9/10. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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