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Neighborhood · Ranked #48,083 of 84,120 nationally

Thompsons Eviction Risk: Lower , Salt Lake City

Tract 49035100100 · Salt Lake, UT · pop 2,945 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Landlord eviction risk in census tract 49035100100 (Thompsons in Salt Lake City, Utah) comes in at 4.8/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 30% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 35% of renter households, a high level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,807 monthly, set against $85,893 in average yearly household income, roughly 25% of income at the averages. Renters make up 86% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 56% Owners 14%
Tract context
Occupied units1,981
Renter share86.1%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate15.0%
Median income$85,893

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Thompsons
Moderate
Within parent city
54 th percentile
Rank, 54th percentileLowHigh
#26 of 55 tracts In Salt Lake City
Moderate
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#39 of 251 tracts In Salt Lake
High
Within state
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#134 of 716 tracts In Utah
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Salt Lake City and the region

Centroid at 40.7906, -111.9101 · click any tract to drill in

Why Thompsons scores 3.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Salt Lake City
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Utah legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
15.0% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,807 rent vs county FMR
5.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Salt Lake City
3.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Salt Lake City
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Salt Lake City
5.0

How Thompsons compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Thompsons risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.63.6This tracttract 100100Salt Lake City: 2.92.9Salt Lake Cityparent cityCounty: 2.52.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 2.62.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 20

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 101Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 3.55%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.8%Peak (2010)
  • 8Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2008 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 490351001002008: 16 filings (6.37/100 renter HHs)2009: 13 filings (5.18/100 renter HHs)2010: 18 filings (5.84/100 renter HHs)2011: 7 filings (1.97/100 renter HHs)2012: 13 filings (3.66/100 renter HHs)2013: 15 filings (4.23/100 renter HHs)2014: 6 filings (1.69/100 renter HHs)2015: 5 filings (1.41/100 renter HHs)2016: 8 filings (1.64/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 9 months.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Thompsons

The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. 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 Salt Lake City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Salt Lake County average of 4.4 and above the Utah statewide average of 4.0. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 33% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

In CDC survey modeling, about 11.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 49035100100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 49035100100?

Census tract 49035100100 in the Thompsons neighborhood scores 3.6/10 (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 49035100100?

Median gross rent is $1,807/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 49035100100?

15.0% of residents in tract 49035100100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,945.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 49035100100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 37th, household 1th, minority 54th, housing 51th.
Q5

Is tract 49035100100 considered part of Thompsons?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 49035100100 fall within Thompsons (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 49035100100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 101 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 49035100100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.55% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 49035100100 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 49035100100 compare to Salt Lake City overall?

Tract 49035100100 scores 3.6/10, higher than the parent city of Salt Lake City at 2.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Salt Lake City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 49035100100 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. 33% 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.
Sibling tracts

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