Orange Mound Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157006500 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,309 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
Census tract 47157006500 covers part of the Orange Mound area of Memphis, TN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1043, -89.9975 · click any tract to drill in
Why Orange Mound scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Orange Mound compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 13%Grade B
- 51%Grade C
- 35%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)
- 430Total filings 2020-21
- 5.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.63×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Orange Mound. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Orange Mound
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Disability prevalence runs 48.6% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.4/10.
67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. At $977 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Memphis commands. 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.
That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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