Orange Mound Eviction Risk: Moderate , Memphis
Tract 47157007900 · Shelby County, TN · pop 4,747 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 47157007900 covers part of the Orange Mound area of Memphis, TN, and scores 5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,747 residents. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1013, -89.9595 · click any tract to drill in
Why Orange Mound scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Orange Mound compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 750Total filings 2020-21
- 9.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 14.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.69×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Orange Mound. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Orange Mound
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Disability prevalence runs 44.1% against 31.5% nationally.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. At $985 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Memphis commands. It sits 0.7 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3.
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. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 48% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $42,500.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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