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Neighborhood · Ranked #37,882 of 84,120 nationally

Medical District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis

Tract 47157003600 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,542 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

47157003600 is a census tract in the Medical District area of Memphis, TN. It scores 4.7/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,542. 84% 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.

Risk score
4.7
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 53% Owners 16%
Tract context
Occupied units845
Renter share84.3%
SVI overall0.66
Poverty rate17.2%
Median income$46,375

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
17 th percentile
Rank, 17th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 7 tracts In Medical District
Very Low
Within parent city
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#118 of 197 tracts In Memphis
Moderate
Within county
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#121 of 249 tracts In Shelby County
Moderate
Within state
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#393 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Memphis and the region

Centroid at 35.1389, -90.0172 · click any tract to drill in

Why Medical District scores 4.7

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
17.2% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$945 rent vs county FMR
2.0
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 Medical District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Medical District risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.7This tracttract 0036004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 66

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)

  • 516Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.66×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 Medical District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Medical District

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. At $945 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Memphis commands.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.

It tracks the Shelby County average of 4.3 closely. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $46,375.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 47157003600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157003600?

Census tract 47157003600 in the Medical District neighborhood scores 4.7/10 (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 47157003600?

Median gross rent is $945/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157003600?

17.2% of residents in tract 47157003600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,542.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157003600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 66th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 67th, household 45th, minority 52th, housing 70th.
Q5

Is tract 47157003600 considered part of Medical District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157003600 fall within Medical District (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157003600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.66× 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 47157003600 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157003600 scores 4.7/10, 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 47157003600 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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