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

Beale Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis

Tract 47157004500 · Shelby County, TN · pop 894 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

47157004500 is a census tract in the Beale Street Historic District area of Memphis, TN. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. Population here is 894. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40% Stable renters 47% Owners 13%
Tract context
Occupied units348
Renter share86.5%
SVI overall0.92
Poverty rate57.6%
Median income$22,344

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In Beale Street Historic District
Very High
Within parent city
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#87 of 197 tracts In Memphis
Elevated
Within county
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#82 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 35.1286, -90.0394 · click any tract to drill in

Why Beale Street Historic 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
57.6% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$403 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Beale Street Historic District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Beale Street Historic District risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0045004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 92

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)

  • 216Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.10×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 Beale Street Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Beale Street Historic District

Average gross rent is $403, 66% below the Memphis average. The poverty rate is 58%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 53.8% against 31.5% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 86% 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.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Adults with no health insurance runs 21.4% against 11.3% nationally. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 47157004500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157004500?

Census tract 47157004500 in the Beale Street Historic 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 47157004500?

Median gross rent is $403/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157004500?

57.6% of residents in tract 47157004500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 894.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157004500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 92th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 91th, minority 95th, housing 64th.
Q5

Is tract 47157004500 considered part of Beale Street Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157004500 fall within Beale Street Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157004500 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.10× 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 47157004500 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157004500 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 47157004500 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.
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