Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate

roughly three in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Shelby County average of 48.3%. Annualized rent equals 57% of average household income of $23,406, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.7/10.

The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 50.9% against 31.5% nationally.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, 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. Average gross rent is $1,116, close to the Memphis average.

54% 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.