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Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Cooper-Young Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis

Tract 47157006400 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,775 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 47157006400 covers part of the Cooper-Young area of Memphis, TN, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 26% Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units666
Renter share41.0%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate16.4%
Median income$51,857

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Cooper-Young
Very High
Within parent city
38 th percentile
Rank, 38th percentileLowHigh
#123 of 197 tracts In Memphis
Low
Within county
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#125 of 249 tracts In Shelby County
Moderate
Within state
73 th percentile
Rank, 73rd percentileLowHigh
#461 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Memphis and the region

Centroid at 35.1127, -89.9984 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cooper-Young scores 4.5

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
16.4% poverty · this tract
4.1
Supply constraint
$1,107 rent vs county FMR
3.2
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 / state4.5This tracttract 0064004.0Memphisparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 59

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)

  • 184Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.67×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-04-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). 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 clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Shelby County average of 48.3%. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Memphis eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score.

Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. It tracks the Shelby County average of 4.3 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,107, close to the Memphis average. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $51,857. 41% 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 47157006400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157006400?

Census tract 47157006400 in the Cooper-Young neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate 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 47157006400?

Median gross rent is $1,107/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 47157006400?

16.4% of residents in tract 47157006400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,775.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 47157006400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 71th, household 35th, minority 89th, housing 36th.
Q5

Is tract 47157006400 considered part of Cooper-Young?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157006400 fall within Cooper-Young (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 47157006400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.67× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 47157006400 compare to Memphis overall?

Tract 47157006400 scores 4.5/10, higher 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 47157006400 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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