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Neighborhood · Ranked #49,882 of 84,120 nationally

Sugar House Eviction Risk: Lower , Salt Lake City

Tract 49035103300 · Salt Lake, UT · pop 4,319 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Landlord eviction risk in census tract 49035103300 (the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah) comes in at 4.7/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #61,164 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

About 39% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,272 monthly, set against $80,211 in average yearly household income, roughly 19% of income at the averages. About 64% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25% Stable renters 40% Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units2,162
Renter share64.3%
SVI overall0.39
Poverty rate11.3%
Median income$80,211

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Sugar House
Very High
Within parent city
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 55 tracts In Salt Lake City
Moderate
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#47 of 251 tracts In Salt Lake
High
Within state
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#149 of 716 tracts In Utah
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Salt Lake City and the region

Centroid at 40.7295, -111.8625 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sugar House scores 3.5

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
11.3% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,272 rent vs county FMR
2.3
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 Sugar House compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sugar House risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.53.5This tracttract 103300Salt 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: 39

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

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.

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)

  • 117Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 1.12%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.7%Peak (2011)
  • 9Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2008 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 490351033002008: 14 filings (1.19/100 renter HHs)2009: 13 filings (1.11/100 renter HHs)2010: 17 filings (1.40/100 renter HHs)2011: 19 filings (1.69/100 renter HHs)2012: 13 filings (1.16/100 renter HHs)2013: 15 filings (1.33/100 renter HHs)2014: 12 filings (1.07/100 renter HHs)2015: 5 filings (0.44/100 renter HHs)2016: 9 filings (0.70/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 36% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Sugar House. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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 Sugar House

What moves this score most 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 about the same as 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.

In CDC survey modeling, about 8.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 49035103300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 49035103300?

Census tract 49035103300 in the Sugar House neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (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 49035103300?

Median gross rent is $1,272/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 49035103300?

11.3% of residents in tract 49035103300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,319.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 49035103300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 39th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 34th, household 4th, minority 38th, housing 89th.
Q5

Is tract 49035103300 considered part of Sugar House?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 49035103300 fall within Sugar House (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 49035103300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 117 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 49035103300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.12% of renter households, peaking at 1.7% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 49035103300 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.6% 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. 5.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 49035103300 compare to Salt Lake City overall?

Tract 49035103300 scores 3.5/10, 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 49035103300 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. 0% 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

Highest-risk tracts in Salt Lake City

Top eight tracts in Salt Lake City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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