Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
North Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157000900 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,348 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 47157000900 in the North Memphis area of Memphis, TN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,348. Severe burden reaches 39%. 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 29%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units929
Renter share42.8%
SVI overall0.77
Poverty rate25.1%
Median income$36,104
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
90
th percentile
High
Within county
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1649, -89.9752 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Memphis scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
25.1% poverty · this tract
6.3
Supply constraint
$1,069 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 92%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 12%Grade B
- 19%Grade C
- 69%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.
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)
- 381Total filings 2020-21
- 5.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.72×Ratio to 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
Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 48.3% across Shelby County. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Set annual rent against average income of $36,104 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Disability prevalence runs 46.9% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.9/10.
Average gross rent is $1,069, 9% below the Memphis average. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.9/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 47157000900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157000900?
Census tract 47157000900 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 47157000900?
Median gross rent is $1,069/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 67% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 47157000900?
25.1% of residents in tract 47157000900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,348.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 47157000900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 82th, household 92th, minority 93th, housing 24th.
Q5
Is tract 47157000900 considered part of North Memphis?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157000900 fall within North Memphis (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 47157000900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× 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 47157000900 compare to Memphis overall?
Tract 47157000900 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 47157000900 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. 69% 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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