Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Downtown Knoxville Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 47093000100 · Knox County, TN · pop 2,562 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Census tract 47093000100 covers part of the Downtown Knoxville area of Knoxville, TN, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,562 residents. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

4.5

Moderate

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 36% Stable renters 42% Owners 22%

Tract context

Occupied units1,695

Renter share78.6%

SVI overall0.44

Poverty rate19.4%

Median income$64,769

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Knoxville and the region

Centroid at 35.9651, -83.9202 · click any tract to drill in

Why Downtown Knoxville scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Knoxville

2.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

4.2

State political climate

Tennessee legislature & governorship

1.9

Economic stress

19.4% poverty · this tract

4.9

Supply constraint

$1,332 rent vs county FMR

3.6

Rent control risk

Inherited from Knoxville

1.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

2.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Knoxville

2.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Knoxville

2.5

How Downtown Knoxville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 44

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

48%Socioeconomic
7%Household composition
22%Racial/ethnic minority
85%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
15%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Downtown Knoxville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Downtown Knoxville

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Cost burden runs 46% here against 40.9% across Knox County. It sits 0.8 points above the Knox County average of 3.7.

At $1,332 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Knoxville commands. 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 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 4.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $64,769.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 47093000100

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47093000100?

Census tract 47093000100 in the Downtown Knoxville neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 47093000100?

Median gross rent is $1,332/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 47093000100?

19.4% of residents in tract 47093000100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,562.

How socially vulnerable is tract 47093000100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 7th, minority 22th, housing 85th.

Is tract 47093000100 considered part of Downtown Knoxville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47093000100 fall within Downtown Knoxville (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).

How does tract 47093000100 compare to Knoxville overall?

Tract 47093000100 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Knoxville at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Knoxville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 47093000100 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. 15% 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 Knoxville

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