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Neighborhood · Ranked #42,813 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 46% Stable renters 26% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units2,328
Renter share71.6%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate13.2%
Median income$45,874

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 10 tracts In Crosstown
Moderate
Within parent city
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#129 of 197 tracts In Memphis
Low
Within county
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#131 of 249 tracts In Shelby County
Moderate
Within state
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#505 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
Elevated
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local 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
13.2% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,071 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 Crosstown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Crosstown risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.4This tracttract 0032004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 68

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 786Total filings 2020-21
  • 10.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 7.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.33×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Crosstown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 47157003200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157003200?

Census tract 47157003200 in the Crosstown neighborhood scores 4.4/10 (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 47157003200?

Median gross rent is $1,071/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157003200?

13.2% of residents in tract 47157003200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,859.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157003200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 28th, minority 61th, housing 67th.
Q5

Is tract 47157003200 considered part of Crosstown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157003200 fall within Crosstown (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157003200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.33× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 47157003200 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157003200 scores 4.4/10, 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 47157003200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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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