Orange Mound Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157007000 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,696 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 47157007000 in the Orange Mound area of Memphis, TN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. 39% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1117, -89.9561 · 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: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%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
- 36%Grade B
- 62%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 1,018Total filings 2020-21
- 13.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 18.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.72×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 Orange Mound. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Orange Mound
Annualized rent equals 54% of average household income of $22,367, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 53%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 50.6% against 31.5% nationally. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3. Average gross rent is $1,006, 15% below the Memphis average.
Adults with no health insurance runs 19.3% against 11.3% nationally. 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.
Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 47157007000
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