The Eviction Lab at Princeton University released a new publicly available dataset with aggregated counts and rates of eviction filings and judgments across the United States. The researchers sought landlord/tenant records from courts in each state and other data providers, removed irrelevant cases, and aggregated them into counts by state, county, and other geographic levels.
The 13 states that provided court data are Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Some tracked the filing of cases but did not note the resolution.
These data were supplemented the purchase of public eviction records from LexisNexis Risk Solutions (excluded North Dakota and South Dakota) and American Information Research Services, Inc. The researchers primarily used the LexisNexis data since they were the most complete. To validate the data and provide additional downloadable statistics, the Eviction Lab also collected county-level statistics from 27 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia. To convert the counts into rates, the researchers used data from the decennial Census and American Community Survey.
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