Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157022310 · Shelby County, TN · pop 5,867
Census tract 47157022310 covers part of Memphis, TN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 48.3% across Shelby County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.0452, -90.0741 · 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: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%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)
- 762Total filings 2020-21
- 10.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 15.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×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
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Set annual rent against average income of $29,647 and the ratio lands at 42%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Disability prevalence runs 51.2% against 31.5% nationally. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Running cool, 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.
Average gross rent is $1,026, 13% below the Memphis average. 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 9.7/10, 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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