Medical District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis

100% 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. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Set annual rent against average income of $22,650 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $763 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Memphis commands.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.3% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Memphis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.