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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Cooper-Young compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 12
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 59%Grade B
- 41%Grade C
- 0%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.
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
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Cooper-Young. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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