Data on Evictions & Housing

What data do we have about how many evictions (or warning notices) are filed, what happens to them in court, and what happens to the people involved?

On this page, find a collection of Eviction and Housing Databases with up-to-date data surrounding eviction updates. Some also include COVID-19 specific information.

In this page, find datasets, explainers, and plans for data work.

Are you looking for detailed information about housing, evictions, and court filings? Explore this guide to national, statewide, and local eviction data sources. The page includes data about who is at risk of eviction, lawsuits being filed to evict people, and housing dynamics that can lead to evictions.

1. National Data on Eviction Risk, Lawsuits, and Dynamics
   • Eviction Lab data on US court eviction filings
   • Eviction Tracker from Legal Services Corporation
   • Foreclosure and Eviction Analysis Tool (FEAT)
   • Housing Precarity Risk Map
   • Eviction Laws policy map
   • Open Eviction Data and Tool Finder
   • Cost of Eviction Calculator
   • Other national datasets and tools around eviction and housing
2. Local Eviction Data
   • Who owns what? database in NYC
   • Atlanta Region Eviction Tracker
   • Virginia & Richmond city eviction data and mapping
   • Louisville Eviction Lab data
   • Pennsylvania Eviciton Risk Maps
   • Michigan Eviction data
   • More local eviction data & dashboards
3. Building Better Eviction Data Systems
   • What data should agencies be collecting about evictions?
   • The Eviction Data Gap

National Data on Eviction Risk, Lawsuits, and Dynamics

Eviction Lab data on US court eviction filings

Princeton Eviction Lab’s Court Filing data repository has raw data, map visualizations, and ranking tables to explore. The Eviction Lab also has an in-depth tracker of some counties’ and cities’ eviction case filings & outcomes: https://evictionlab.org/eviction-tracking/

Eviction Tracker from Legal Services Corporation

The Legal Services Corporation’s Civil Court Data Initiative has an Eviction Tracker that presents what is happening in local county and municipal courts, when it comes to eviction filings and case proceedings. See the Tracker at https://civilcourtdata.lsc.gov/data/eviction

Foreclosure and Eviction Analysis Tool (FEAT)

New America & DataKind have an interactive data tool for local civic and court leaders to make better policies around evictions and foreclosures. The FEAT tool lets them upload local eviction court data or foreclosure data. It then spotlights insights policymakers can take away about future housing loss and impacts on particular groups. Try out the tool here: https://www.featapp.org/

Housing Precarity Risk Map

The University of California Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project has an interactive map of different kinds of housing instability, or precarity, risk around the US.

Eviction Laws policy map

The Legal Services Corporation worked with the Law Atlas group at Temple University to make a 50-state index of landlord-tenant and eviction laws. Every jurisdiction may have different rules about:

• when landlords may evict a tenant
• how tenants can challenge an illegal eviction, like a lockout, harassment, or utility shutoff
• the warning and notice timeline, requirements, and steps a landlord must take
• how to file an eviction lawsuit, what steps to follow, and the timing of it — including how to make a claim for the tenant to leave the tenant to leave the home, and how to claim for money a landlord thinks the tenant owes
• what defenses and counterclaims a tenant may use to stop the eviction, reduce the money they owe, or ask for money from the landlord
• how eviction hearings are conducted, and if/how appeals are allowed
• whether eviction filings are public records, and how they may be masked or sealed to protect litigants from collateral consequences
• how court judgments then are processed and used by landlords, sheriffs, or others to remove people from their homes

This policy map provides an overview of this legal data about eviction rules and processes.

It was last updated in 2021.

Open Eviction Data and Tool Finder

The Open Eviction Data and Tool Resource is a repository of eviction data and tools available that are available to the public. This is an ongoing effort and will be updated automatically with new submissions. If you have any suggestions of data sources or examples to include, please submit them here or use the form below.

How do I use the Open Eviction Data and Tool Finder?

Use the table below, which is categorized into different themes.

You can filter for tools or data sets, resources related to data collection, analysis or strategy, difficulty level and much more.

Feel free to play around with the tool to find the resource you are looking for!

Contribute to the Open Eviction Data and Tool Finder

Fill out this form below if you want to submit a data set or a tool to the Open Eviction Data and Tool Resource and help other cities and organizations gain more access to tools and data that assist with eviction prevention.