Within neighborhood
75
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Orange Mound Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157006800 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,717 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
47157006800 is a census tract in the Orange Mound area of Memphis, TN. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.3/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 48%
Tract context
Occupied units822
Renter share51.8%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate27.9%
Median income$37,619
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
79
th percentile
High
Within county
94
th percentile
Very High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1041, -89.9767 · click any tract to drill in
Why Orange Mound scores 5.4
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
27.9% poverty · this tract
7.0
Supply constraint
$855 rent vs county FMR
1.3
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: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 99%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)
- 261Total filings 2020-21
- 3.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.88×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
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $855, 28% below the Memphis average. Disability prevalence runs 46.7% against 31.5% nationally.
The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 47157006800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157006800?
Census tract 47157006800 in the Orange Mound neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 47157006800?
Median gross rent is $855/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 47157006800?
27.9% of residents in tract 47157006800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,717.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 47157006800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 70th, minority 99th, housing 62th.
Q5
Is tract 47157006800 considered part of Orange Mound?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157006800 fall within Orange Mound (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 47157006800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.88× 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 47157006800 compare to Memphis overall?
Tract 47157006800 scores 5.4/10, 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 47157006800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 99% 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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