Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Poplar Grove Eviction Risk: Moderate , Salt Lake City
Tract 49035102600 · Salt Lake, UT · pop 4,494 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 49035102600 in the Poplar Grove area of Salt Lake City, UT reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 1.9/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,827
Renter share45.5%
SVI overall0.91
Poverty rate17.3%
Median income$56,086
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
95
th percentile
Very High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Salt Lake City and the region
Centroid at 40.7613, -111.9182 · click any tract to drill in
Why Poplar Grove scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Salt Lake City
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Utah legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
17.3% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,249 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Salt Lake City
3.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Salt Lake City
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Salt Lake City
5.0
How Poplar Grove compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 76%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 16%Grade B
- 18%Grade C
- 51%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.
Eviction filings
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 182Total filings over 9 yrs
- 4.06%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.8%Peak (2010)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 22% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Poplar Grove. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 21.5%Housing insecurity
- 14.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.2%Food insecurity
- 18.0%SNAP enrollment
- 14.0%Transit barriers
- 21.3%No health insurance
- 20.1%Frequent mental distress
- 37.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Poplar Grove
The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Salt Lake County average of 42.4%.
It sits 1.6 points above the Salt Lake County average of 3.8. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 21.3% against 11.3% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 182 filings here across 9 tracked years.
Average gross rent is $1,249, 12% below the Salt Lake City average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 4.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Salt Lake City. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 4.1% of renter households face a filing.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 49035102600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 49035102600?
Census tract 49035102600 in the Poplar Grove neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 49035102600?
Median gross rent is $1,249/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 49035102600?
17.3% of residents in tract 49035102600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,494.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 49035102600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 91th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 84th, household 76th, minority 68th, housing 95th.
Q5
Is tract 49035102600 considered part of Poplar Grove?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 49035102600 fall within Poplar Grove (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 49035102600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 182 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 49035102600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.06% of renter households, peaking at 4.8% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 49035102600 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 14.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 49035102600 compare to Salt Lake City overall?
Tract 49035102600 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Salt Lake City at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Salt Lake City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 49035102600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 51% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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5.4
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