Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157007822 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,279
Tract 47157007822 sits in Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. The severe-burden share is 40%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.0794, -90.0273 · click any tract to drill in
Why Memphis scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Memphis compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 63%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
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)
- 147Total filings 2020-21
- 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.86×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Memphis
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.6/10. Cost burden runs 62% here against 48.3% across Shelby County. Set annual rent against average income of $28,633 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 51.8% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 22.3% against 11.3% nationally.
Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Average gross rent is $1,016, 14% below the Memphis average.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.5/10 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.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 47157007822
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Highest-risk tracts in Memphis
Top eight tracts in Memphis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.