South Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $29,231, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Shelby County average of 48.3%. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 46.1% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

At $907 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. 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.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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