Germantown Nashville, TN Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47037019401 · Davidson County, TN · pop 3,028 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
47037019401 is a census tract in the Germantown Nashville, TN area of Nashville, TN. It scores 4.3/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,028. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Nashville and the region
Centroid at 36.1721, -86.7921 · click any tract to drill in
Why Germantown Nashville, TN scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Germantown Nashville, TN compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%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
- 90%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)
- 579Total filings 2020-21
- 7.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.82×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
Within Germantown Nashville, TN. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Germantown Nashville, TN
This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.7/10.
Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $72,377, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Cost burden runs 55% here against 46.0% across Davidson County. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
Average gross rent is $1,986, 25% above the Nashville average. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10. 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.
Nationally it ranks #44,239 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Davidson County average of 3.9 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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