Crosstown Eviction Risk: Lower , Memphis

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 2.4/10. Cost burden runs 43% here against 48.3% across Shelby County. At $1,330 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Memphis commands.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Shelby County average of 4.3 closely. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $60,817.

39% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.