Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157008900 · Shelby County, TN · pop 4,093
Tract 47157008900 sits in Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Population here is 4,093. Adults with no health insurance runs 33.9% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1877, -89.9299 · 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: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%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
- 4%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)
- 367Total filings 2020-21
- 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 10.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.45×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
Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Shelby County average of 48.3%. Disability prevalence runs 51.1% against 31.5% nationally.
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.3/10.
At $1,065 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Memphis commands. 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 #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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