Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157022130 · Shelby County, TN · pop 5,692
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 47157022130 in Memphis, TN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,692. 27% 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 35.0039, -90.0135 · 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: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%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)
- 556Total filings 2020-21
- 7.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.76×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
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Memphis
Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.8/10.
At $1,058 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Memphis commands. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, 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 household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $53,643.
40% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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