Crosstown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157003400 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,443 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 47157003400 sits in the Crosstown area of Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.4/10. Population here is 2,443. The clearest offset 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 35.1376, -90.0078 · 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: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 29%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.
- 26%Grade A
- 100%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)
- 502Total filings 2020-21
- 6.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.14×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near 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
37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Shelby County average of 48.3%. 69% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. At $932 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Memphis commands. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
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. That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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 22% of average household income of $50,559.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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