Within neighborhood
25
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Orange Mound Eviction Risk: Lower , Memphis
Tract 47157006600 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,229 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 47157006600 sits in the Orange Mound area of Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.8/10. It is home to 2,229 residents. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,273
Renter share60.4%
SVI overall0.31
Poverty rate9.5%
Median income$55,507
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
28
th percentile
Low
Within county
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
55
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1199, -89.9846 · click any tract to drill in
Why Orange Mound scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
9.5% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,257 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 Orange Mound compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 31
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 9%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 65%Grade B
- 27%Grade C
- 8%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.
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)
- 156Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.83×Ratio to 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 Orange Mound. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Orange Mound
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Cost burden runs 56% here against 48.3% across Shelby County.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10. 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. On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.8/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Shelby County average of 4.3 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,257, close to the Memphis average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $55,507. 60% 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 47157006600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157006600?
Census tract 47157006600 in the Orange Mound neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (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 47157006600?
Median gross rent is $1,257/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 47157006600?
9.5% of residents in tract 47157006600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,229.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 47157006600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 31th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 4th, minority 62th, housing 9th.
Q5
Is tract 47157006600 considered part of Orange Mound?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157006600 fall within Orange Mound (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 47157006600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× 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 47157006600 compare to Memphis overall?
Tract 47157006600 scores 3.8/10, right in line with 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 47157006600 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. 8% 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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