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Beale Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis

Tract 47157005000 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,022 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Census tract 47157005000 covers part of the Beale Street Historic District area of Memphis, TN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,022. 47% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score

5.4

Moderate

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 65% Stable renters 26% Owners 9%

Tract context

Occupied units431

Renter share91.2%

SVI overall0.98

Poverty rate65.4%

Median income$14,311

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Memphis and the region

Centroid at 35.1213, -90.0511 · 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

65.4% poverty · this tract

10.0

Supply constraint

$725 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.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 98

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

100%Socioeconomic
78%Household composition
96%Racial/ethnic minority
88%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
34%Grade C
66%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.

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)

250Total filings 2020-21
3.3Avg monthly (observed)
1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
1.91×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01

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 Beale Street Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Beale Street Historic District

Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 71% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 61% of average household income of $14,311, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Disability prevalence runs 60.0% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 65%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Average gross rent is $725, 39% below the Memphis average. This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.3% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 47157005000

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157005000?

Census tract 47157005000 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.

What is the average rent in tract 47157005000?

Median gross rent is $725/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 71% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157005000?

65.4% of residents in tract 47157005000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,022.

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157005000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 78th, minority 96th, housing 88th.

Is tract 47157005000 considered part of Beale Street Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157005000 fall within Beale Street Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).

Did eviction filings in tract 47157005000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.91× 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.

How does tract 47157005000 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157005000 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.

Was tract 47157005000 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. 66% 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.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org