Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157009902 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,103
Tract 47157009902 sits in Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. 43% 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 35.2058, -90.0377 · 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: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%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)
- 911Total filings 2020-21
- 12.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.30×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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
Annualized rent equals 60% of average household income of $19,886, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 52%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 55.0% against 31.5% nationally.
Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 21.5% 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 $999, 15% below the Memphis average.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10. 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. 61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
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