Crosstown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157003200 · Shelby County, TN · pop 3,859 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
47157003200 is a census tract in the Crosstown area of Memphis, TN. It scores 4.4/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,859. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 64% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1371, -89.9969 · click any tract to drill in
Why Crosstown scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Crosstown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 28%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%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.
- 25%Grade A
- 82%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 786Total filings 2020-21
- 10.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.33×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 Crosstown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Crosstown
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.9/10.
Average gross rent is $1,071, 9% below the Memphis average. 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 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.1/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Shelby County average of 4.3 closely. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $45,874.
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.
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