In a typical year, landlords file 3.6 million eviction cases.

The Eviction Lab at Princeton University creates data, interactive tools, and research to help neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis.

In a typical year, landlords file 3.6 million eviction cases.

The Eviction Lab at Princeton University creates data, interactive tools, and research to help neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis.

Comprehensive national data

Map & Data 2.0

How is the eviction crisis affecting your community? Find out with our newly updated map, which now covers all 50 U.S. states & D.C. You can search for your county, compare data across regions, interact with demographic characteristics, and create local reports.

New features include:

Data from 2000 to 2018
Estimated data for every county in all 50 U.S. states & D.C.
New variable: Households threatened with eviction

Eviction Tracking System

See up-to-date maps, charts and data on eviction filings in select cities.

Updated January 6, 2024

Eviction Tracking System

See up-to-date maps, charts and data on eviction filings in select cities

Updated January 6, 2024

Research

Learn about our key findings

Our research explores topics such as the consequences of eviction, landlords and rental markets, and zoning, and offers tools to address the eviction crisis.

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We made a simple eviction data request to all 50 states. This is what we learned

The federal government doesn’t track evictions and there is no national mandate for courts to collect it, so we made a request for eviction data in all 50 states. Spoiler: In many places, it wasn’t easy to find these numbers.

Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2023 More than 200,000 rural families face an eviction every year

Reporting SEE ALL

PBS Frontline

Facing Eviction

Why have some American families struggled to keep their homes during the COVID pandemic, despite a federal ban on evictions? Facing Eviction offers an intimate look at the United States’ affordable housing crisis through the eyes of tenants, landlords, judges and law enforcement.

The New Republic

After the Eviction Moratorium

The Utah Investigative Journalism Project

Utah helped landlords, not renters. How that’s changing.

KITV

Eviction cases on the rise as Hawaii tenants struggle to stay in their homes

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Reporting SEE ALL

Resources

Eviction Rankings

See which cities rank the highest in evictions in the US (data from 2016).

Zoning & Land Use Database

Get zoning data for over 2,600 municipalities across the U.S.

Just Shelter

See our list of over 700 organizations that offer housing assistance, legal aid, and more.

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