Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157008120 · Shelby County, TN · pop 5,364
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 47157008120 in Memphis, TN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,364 residents. Severe burden reaches 39%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.0869, -89.9617 · 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
- 62%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%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)
- 1,166Total filings 2020-21
- 15.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 16.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.95×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
Average gross rent is $745, 37% below the Memphis average. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $26,661 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Shelby County average of 48.3%. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Disability prevalence runs 43.7% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3.
Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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. 53% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 47157008120
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