Within parent city
13
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #81,634 of 84,120 nationally
Germantown Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 47157021357 · Shelby County, TN · pop 6,063 · 88% of tract blocks fall in Germantown
For landlords sizing up Germantown in Shelby County, census tract 47157021357 carries a lower eviction-risk score of 3.5/10. That is riskier than about 5% of US census tracts.
About 0% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a modest level, and 0% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $233,125 a year. About 1% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Risk score
1.2
Lower
Confidence 70% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 99%
Tract context
Occupied units2,046
Renter share0.6%
SVI overall0.00
Poverty rate0.9%
Median income$233,125
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
2
th percentile
Very Low
National
3
th percentile
Very Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Germantown and the region
Centroid at 35.0944, -89.7538 · click any tract to drill in
Why Germantown scores 1.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Germantown
6.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Tennessee legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
0.9% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Germantown
5.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Germantown
3.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Germantown
3.9
How Germantown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 0
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 0%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 26%Racial/ethnic minority
- 1%Housing & transportation
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)
- 1Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.00×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Germantown
The heaviest input here is rent-control risk at 5.4/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Germantown eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Shelby County average of 4.9 and below the Tennessee statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 0th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
Frequently asked
About tract 47157021357
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157021357?
Census tract 47157021357 in Germantown scores 1.2/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 47157021357?
0.9% of residents in tract 47157021357 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,063.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 47157021357?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 0th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 13th, minority 26th, housing 1th.
Q4
How does tract 47157021357 compare to Germantown overall?
Tract 47157021357 scores 1.2/10, lower than the parent city of Germantown at 2.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Germantown eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Germantown
Top eight tracts in Germantown ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · TN
47157021351
1.9
/ 10 · Very Low
Tract · TN
47157021430
1.5
/ 10 · Very Low
Tract · TN
47157021341
1.4
/ 10 · Very Low
Tract · TN
47157021420
1.4
/ 10 · Very Low
Tract · TN
47157021356
1.3
/ 10 · Very Low
Tract · TN
47157021410
1.3
/ 10 · Very Low
Tract · TN
47157021352
1.2
/ 10 · Very Low
Tract · TN
47157021355
1.2
/ 10 · Very Low
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