Nashville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47037013702 · Davidson County, TN · pop 3,707
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 47037013702 in Nashville, TN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,707 residents. 32% 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 Nashville and the region
Centroid at 36.1969, -86.8034 · click any tract to drill in
Why Nashville scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Nashville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 12%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
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
- 26%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)
- 668Total filings 2020-21
- 8.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 11.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.76×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Nashville, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Nashville
This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.7/10.
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. It sits 1.3 points above the Davidson County average of 3.9.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. Average gross rent is $1,308, 18% below the Nashville average.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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