National eviction geography, honest operational measures
Eviction Labs publishes a research directory for every U.S. state, county and major city — and separately measures how cases move after a filing, from EvictIQ’s own completed cases. The geography is national. The operational sample is not. We keep those facts on the same page.
Every state, county, and major city
A filing is a court case, not a lockout. These pages explain that, link counties to their state, and show a cited Eviction Lab figure only when the source file actually contains one.
Locations
50 states and D.C., every Census county-equivalent, and major cities (Census places ~100k+ plus high-eviction metros).
Highest filers — cities
Eviction Lab 2016 large-city judgments and rates. Filing counts are omitted where the extract does not include them.
Highest filers — states
The same Eviction Lab extract at state level, plus a city table for each state that has cited rows.
Six things worth measuring
Each has a published definition covering population, computation, reporting form, cuts and suppression rules. The population is EvictIQ completed cases, not every U.S. filing.
Case Aging
Case aging measures the distribution of how long currently-open eviction cases have been open, measured from filing. It is the standard…
Filing to Hearing
The interval between the dispossessory being filed and the case being heard, for cases that reach a hearing. It is largely a measure of…
Judgment to Writ
The interval from judgment entry to the writ of possession actually being executed. In our records this is consistently the stage with …
Writ and Setout Delays
A decomposition of the reasons an execution window was missed, rescheduled, or ran long, coded from our completion reports.…
Cost Benchmarks
The distribution of realised cost by stage across completed cases, alongside estimated lost rent for the same cases where rent is recor…
Portfolio Delinquency
How delinquency is distributed within portfolios — concentration, persistence, and what share resolves without a filing.…
What we commit to
Aggregate only, never identifiable
Nothing we publish contains tenant names, addresses, case numbers or any detail that could identify a household. Counts below a disclosure threshold are suppressed rather than published thin.
Methodology before findings
Every figure is published alongside how it was computed, what population it covers, and what it excludes. A number without a method attached is marketing, not research.
We describe our own book, and say so
Operational records are the cases EvictIQ worked. That is an operationally rich sample and a biased one — it over-represents owners who hire a service and is historically Georgia-heavy. We state that rather than implying nationwide completed-case coverage we don't have.
No number gets created to earn a link
If the data doesn't support a finding, we don't publish one. Ranking pages omit filing counts when the cited Eviction Lab extract does not include them. A research programme that manufactures statistics for backlinks is worth less than no research programme.
Corrections are published, not quietly edited
If we get something wrong, the correction goes on the page with a date.
What is up, and what is in preparation
| Report | Cadence | Covers | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| National geography directory | Maintained | State, county and major-city pages; process education; cited public sources only. | Published |
| Eviction Lab ranking extracts | As source updates | 2016 city and state judgments and rates, labeled; filing counts omitted where absent. | Published |
| County filing-count ranking | — | Not in the Eviction Lab rankings extract we commit. Page states the gap. | Data forthcoming |
| Georgia eviction filing report | Annual | Filing volume and disposition across EvictIQ Georgia case records. | In preparation |
| Metro Atlanta case-flow report | Quarterly | Cycle time by stage across the metro counties we work. | In preparation |
| County-by-county cycle time | Quarterly | Median and spread per county we work, with exclusion rates — not all U.S. counties. | In preparation |
| Writ and setout delay analysis | Annual | Coded reasons execution windows are missed or run long. | In preparation |
| Eviction cost structure | Annual | Realised cost by stage against estimated lost rent. | In preparation |
| Portfolio delinquency outlook | Annual | Delinquency structure and resolution paths across managed portfolios. | In preparation |
About this programme
Is this an academic research organisation?
No. Eviction Labs is the research programme of EvictIQ. We publish a national geography directory and operational data from EvictIQ's own completed cases. We state that plainly because the alternative would be misleading.
Is this Georgia-only?
Geography pages cover every U.S. state, county-equivalent and major city. EvictIQ operational measures — case aging, filing-to-hearing, judgment-to-writ — come from EvictIQ's own completed cases and are historically Georgia-heavy. That sample is not nationwide field coverage.
Where do ranking numbers come from?
City and state ranking tables cite Princeton Eviction Lab's published 2016 rankings extract (judgments and eviction rates). Filing counts are omitted when that extract does not include them. We do not invent volumes to earn a link. See evictionlab.org/rankings.
Where do operational measures come from?
EvictIQ case records — cases prepared, filed, served or completed. That makes the operational detail unusually rich and the sample unrepresentative of all evictions. Both are true and we publish both.
Do you publish tenant information?
Never. Nothing we publish contains tenant names, addresses, case numbers or any detail that could identify a household, and cells below our disclosure threshold are suppressed.
Can I cite these figures?
Yes, with attribution and with the caveat stated on the page: EvictIQ operational figures are one provider's book; ranking volumes are the named public source and year. The methodology page states exactly what each figure covers.
Can I get the underlying data?
Aggregate datasets are published alongside reports. Record-level EvictIQ data is never released. Eviction Lab publishes its own downloads.
Do you take commissions or sponsored research?
No. Everything published here is our own analysis of our own records or a cited public extract.
Request a data briefing
For journalists, analysts and portfolio owners who want the detail ahead of publication.
Methodology note
Populations, missing-data handling, disclosure thresholds.
Managing a portfolio?
We run these same operational measures against a single portfolio as a private assessment. Eviction services live on sister sites — this site stays research.