Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157011020 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,284
Tract 47157011020 sits in Memphis eviction risk, TN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Population here is 1,284. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.0404, -89.9453 · 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: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 25%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%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)
- 312Total filings 2020-21
- 4.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.63×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 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $41,385, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Disability prevalence runs 46.1% against 31.5% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, 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.
Cost burden runs 44% here against 48.3% across Shelby County. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.9% against 11.3% nationally.
On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.6/10.
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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 47157011020
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