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Census Tract · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Nashville Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 47037012801 · Davidson County, TN · pop 5,297

Tract 47037012801 sits in Nashville eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. Population here is 5,297. 38% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 70% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 19% Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units2,347
Renter share37.7%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate32.7%
Median income$37,282

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#21 of 166 tracts In Nashville
High
Within county
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 174 tracts In Davidson County
Very High
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#178 of 1,701 tracts In Tennessee
High
National
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#29,336 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Nashville and the region

Centroid at 36.2168, -86.8289 · click any tract to drill in

Why Nashville scores 5.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Nashville
6.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Tennessee legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
32.7% poverty · this tract
8.2
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Nashville
1.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Nashville
3.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Nashville
3.1

How Nashville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Nashville risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 0128013.8Nashvilleparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

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

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)

  • 477Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.64×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Nashville, 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 Nashville

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.7/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.2/10.

Disability prevalence runs 45.2% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

Against the Davidson County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. 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 9.1/10, 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 household composition measure is the most pressured.

49% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. 38% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 47037012801

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47037012801?

Census tract 47037012801 in Nashville scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 47037012801?

32.7% of residents in tract 47037012801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,297.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 47037012801?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 87th, minority 89th, housing 83th.
Q4

Did eviction filings in tract 47037012801 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.64× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Nashville eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q5

How does tract 47037012801 compare to Nashville overall?

Tract 47037012801 scores 5.2/10, higher than the parent city of Nashville at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Nashville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Nashville

Top eight tracts in Nashville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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