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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Liberty Wells Eviction Risk: Moderate , Salt Lake City

Tract 49035103200 · Salt Lake, UT · pop 4,383 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 49035103200 sits in the Liberty Wells area of Salt Lake City eviction risk, UT, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. It is home to 4,383 residents. 59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Salt Lake County average of 42.4%.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 21% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units2,200
Renter share51.3%
SVI overall0.71
Poverty rate21.3%
Median income$63,955

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Liberty Wells
Very High
Within parent city
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#16 of 55 tracts In Salt Lake City
Elevated
Within county
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 251 tracts In Salt Lake
Very High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 716 tracts In Utah
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Salt Lake City and the region

Centroid at 40.7295, -111.8796 · click any tract to drill in

Why Liberty Wells scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
21.3% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$1,144 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 Liberty Wells compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Liberty Wells risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 1032004.0Salt Lake Cityparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 71

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 231Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 2.50%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.9%Peak (2011)
  • 19Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2008 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 49035103200
Filings dropped 42% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Liberty Wells. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Liberty Wells

25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.5/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

Against the Salt Lake County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

At $1,144 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Salt Lake City commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 231 eviction filings across 9 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2011, when 3.9% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 2.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 49035103200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 49035103200?

Census tract 49035103200 in the Liberty Wells 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 49035103200?

Median gross rent is $1,144/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 49035103200?

21.3% of residents in tract 49035103200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,383.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 49035103200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 54th, minority 32th, housing 75th.
Q5

Is tract 49035103200 considered part of Liberty Wells?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 49035103200 fall within Liberty Wells (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 49035103200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 231 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 49035103200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.50% of renter households, peaking at 3.9% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 49035103200 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.7% 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. 9.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 49035103200 compare to Salt Lake City overall?

Tract 49035103200 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 49035103200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Salt Lake City

Top eight tracts in Salt Lake City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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