South Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate

Set annual rent against average income of $17,130 and the ratio lands at 57%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

Disability prevalence runs 61.5% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 69%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. At $816 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Memphis commands.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.6% against 11.3% nationally.

Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, 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.