Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157022600 · Shelby County, TN · pop 4,132 · 97% of tract blocks fall in Memphis
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 47157022600 in Memphis, TN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,132. 46% 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 35.0188, -89.9012 · 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: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%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)
- 1,226Total filings 2020-21
- 16.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 29.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.55×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
Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 71% of renters here are cost-burdened. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $39,942 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.9/10.
Disability prevalence runs 45.8% against 31.5% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.3% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Shelby County average of 4.3.
Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.5/10. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, 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. Average gross rent is $1,131, close to the Memphis average.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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