South Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 50.5% against 31.5% nationally. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $33,962, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

At $912 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Memphis commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3.

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Shelby County average of 48.3%. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.4/10. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

59% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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