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Neighborhood · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally

Cooper-Young Eviction Risk: Lower , Memphis

Tract 47157006300 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,527 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 47157006300 covers part of the Cooper-Young area of Memphis, TN, and scores 3.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,527 residents. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.

Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 16% Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units1,227
Renter share33.0%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate13.3%
Median income$73,835

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Cooper-Young
Very Low
Within parent city
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#148 of 197 tracts In Memphis
Low
Within county
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#150 of 249 tracts In Shelby County
Low
Within state
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#817 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Memphis and the region

Centroid at 35.1205, -89.9976 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cooper-Young scores 3.7

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
13.3% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,439 rent vs county FMR
5.6
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 Cooper-Young compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Cooper-Young risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.7This tracttract 0063004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 12

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 122Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Cooper-Young. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cooper-Young

The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

At $1,439 a month, rents run 22% over what the rest of Memphis commands. Cost burden runs 52% here against 48.3% across Shelby County. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.

Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Memphis rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.1/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Shelby County average of 4.3 closely.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $73,835. 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 47157006300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157006300?

Census tract 47157006300 in the Cooper-Young neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (Lower 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 47157006300?

Median gross rent is $1,439/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157006300?

13.3% of residents in tract 47157006300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,527.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157006300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 39th, household 6th, minority 48th, housing 7th.
Q5

Is tract 47157006300 considered part of Cooper-Young?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157006300 fall within Cooper-Young (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157006300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 47157006300 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157006300 scores 3.7/10, lower 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 47157006300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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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