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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Medical District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 801Total filings 2020-21
- 10.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.09×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 Medical District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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