Downtown Knoxville Eviction Risk: Moderate

Annualized rent equals 65% of average household income of $18,980, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 69%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 96% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Cost burden runs 55% here against 40.9% across Knox County.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 46.3% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Against the Knox County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. At $1,031 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Knoxville commands.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Knoxville. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.