Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157008110 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,994
Census tract 47157008110 covers part of Memphis, TN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.3/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.0839, -89.9791 · 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: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 10%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)
- 540Total filings 2020-21
- 7.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 15.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.46×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
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Memphis
The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $29,850, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. At $853 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Memphis commands.
Disability prevalence runs 46.8% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.2/10.
Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.0% against 11.3% nationally.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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