Crosstown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157002500 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,711 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 47157002500 sits in the Crosstown area of Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Population here is 2,711. The severe-burden share is 38%, 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 35.1507, -90.0160 · 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: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 82%Grade B
- 12%Grade C
- 5%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)
- 357Total filings 2020-21
- 4.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.76×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 clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10.
59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Shelby County average of 48.3%. At $884 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Memphis commands. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Well under the midpoint, 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. 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 47157002500
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