Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Medical District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157004600 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,380 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 47157004600 covers part of the Medical District area of Memphis, TN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,380. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units655
Renter share75.0%
SVI overall0.92
Poverty rate26.6%
Median income$49,418
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
84
th percentile
High
Within county
69
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1286, -90.0280 · click any tract to drill in
Why Medical District scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Memphis
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Tennessee legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
26.6% poverty · this tract
6.6
Supply constraint
$1,052 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Memphis
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Memphis
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Memphis
4.5
How Medical District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 85%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 60%Grade C
- 40%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.
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)
- 339Total filings 2020-21
- 4.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.19×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Medical District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Medical District
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.8/10.
Average gross rent is $1,052, 11% below the Memphis average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 47157004600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157004600?
Census tract 47157004600 in the Medical District neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 average rent in tract 47157004600?
Median gross rent is $1,052/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 47157004600?
26.6% of residents in tract 47157004600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,380.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 47157004600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 92th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 90th, minority 89th, housing 82th.
Q5
Is tract 47157004600 considered part of Medical District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157004600 fall within Medical District (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 47157004600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.19× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 47157004600 compare to Memphis overall?
Tract 47157004600 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Memphis at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Memphis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 47157004600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 40% 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.
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