Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157022220 · Shelby County, TN · pop 4,730
47157022220 is a census tract in Memphis, TN. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,730. 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 35.0660, -90.0749 · 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: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%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)
- 475Total filings 2020-21
- 6.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.06×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near 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
Cost burden runs 65% here against 48.3% across Shelby County. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 52.6% against 31.5% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, 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.
At $1,015 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Memphis commands. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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.
Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $38,452. 49% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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