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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Medical District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis

Tract 47157003900 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,513 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

47157003900 is a census tract in the Medical District area of Memphis, TN. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,513 residents. Set annual rent against average income of $20,307 and the ratio lands at 55%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 63% Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units1,159
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate45.9%
Median income$20,307

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 7 tracts In Medical District
Elevated
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#41 of 197 tracts In Memphis
High
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#88 of 249 tracts In Shelby County
Elevated
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#39 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Memphis and the region

Centroid at 35.1443, -90.0386 · click any tract to drill in

Why Medical District scores 5.4

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
45.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$923 rent vs county FMR
1.8
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 / state5.4This tracttract 0039004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 76

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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)

  • 801Total filings 2020-21
  • 10.5Avg monthly (observed)
  • 9.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.09×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near 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

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 46%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. Disability prevalence runs 44.7% against 31.5% nationally. Average gross rent is $923, 22% below the Memphis average.

It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 47157003900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157003900?

Census tract 47157003900 in the Medical District neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 47157003900?

Median gross rent is $923/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157003900?

45.9% of residents in tract 47157003900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,513.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157003900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 4th, minority 85th, housing 92th.
Q5

Is tract 47157003900 considered part of Medical District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157003900 fall within Medical District (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157003900 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.09× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 47157003900 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157003900 scores 5.4/10, 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 47157003900 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 100% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Memphis

Top eight tracts in Memphis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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