Midtown Eviction Risk: Lower , Memphis
Tract 47157003100 · Shelby County, TN · pop 3,448 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Tract 47157003100 sits in the Midtown area of Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.6/10. Population here is 3,448. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1329, -89.9798 · click any tract to drill in
Why Midtown scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Midtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 31
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%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.
- 32%Grade A
- 67%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 206Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.51×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Midtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Midtown
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.1/10.
14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 0.7 points below the Shelby County average of 4.3.
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 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.8/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for about half of renters. Average gross rent is $1,117, close to the Memphis average.
Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $59,706.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 47157003100
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