Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157011100 · Shelby County, TN · pop 1,652
Census tract 47157011100 covers part of Memphis, TN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1731, -89.9567 · 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: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%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
- 84%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)
- 140Total filings 2020-21
- 1.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.82×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
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What drives eviction risk in Memphis
The poverty rate is 50%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 54.1% against 31.5% nationally.
Set annual rent against average income of $20,778 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. At $749 a month, rents run 37% under what the rest of Memphis commands. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. 43% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Shelby County average of 48.3%.
Adults with no health insurance runs 18.5% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 47157011100
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