Eviction Statistics by State (2026)
Landlords filed 3.6 million eviction cases in 2018, the most recent full national estimate, and 1.23 million in 2025 across the 48 places Princeton's Eviction Lab tracks. Rates vary widely by place, from about one case for every four renter households in metro Atlanta to about one in 33 in Boston. Below are the numbers by state and city, and how landlord-tenant rules by state shape them.
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- How many evictions are filed in the US
- Eviction filings in 2024 and 2025
- Eviction filings by state
- Eviction filing rates by city
- A few buildings drive a large share of cases
- Who is named in eviction cases
- What state court data shows: Nebraska
- Evictions during the pandemic moratoriums
- The rent pressure behind the numbers
- Notice periods in high-filing states
How many evictions are filed in the US
There is no official national count. The federal government doesn’t collect eviction data, and many states don’t either, so records sit in county courts that can be hard to access (Eviction Lab, Eviction Tracking System 2026, https://evictionlab.org/eviction-tracking/). The best national figures come from Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, which combines court records with statistical modeling.
- More than 3.6 million eviction cases were filed in the United States in 2018 (Eviction Lab, New Data Release 2022, https://evictionlab.org/new-eviction-data-2022/).
- Nearly 6 out of 100 renting households were threatened with eviction at least once during 2018 (Eviction Lab, New Data Release 2022, https://evictionlab.org/new-eviction-data-2022/).
- Filings averaged 3.6 million a year from 2000 to 2018 (Eviction Lab, New Data Release 2022, https://evictionlab.org/new-eviction-data-2022/).
- The national eviction filing rate was 7.8% of renting households in 2018, down from 8.4% in 2000, even though the case count rose from 3.0 million to 3.6 million as the number of renters grew (Eviction Lab, New Data Release 2022, https://evictionlab.org/new-eviction-data-2022/).
- Court records covered an average of 2.6 million filings a year. The Lab’s model adds about 1 million more cases a year for counties with missing data, which were home to 33% of renting households (Eviction Lab, New Data Release 2022, https://evictionlab.org/new-eviction-data-2022/).
- In a typical year before the pandemic, landlords filed about 3.7 million eviction cases nationwide (Eviction Lab, Missing Eviction Filings 2020, https://evictionlab.org/missing-eviction-filings/).
Eviction filings in 2024 and 2025
Since 2020 the Eviction Lab has tracked new filings monthly in a set of states and cities. The Eviction Tracking System isn’t a national sample, but its sites hold roughly one-third of all US renter households (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
- Landlords filed 1.23 million eviction cases in 2025 across 38 city areas and 10 states, down slightly from 1.26 million in 2024 (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
- 2025 filings were 3.2% below the post-pandemic average, meaning the typical yearly count in 2023 and 2024 (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
- The average filing rate across tracked sites was 8.0% in 2025, about one eviction case for every 13 renter households (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
- Filings rose above average in 14 of 48 tracked sites in 2025. The biggest rise was in Travis County, Texas (greater Austin), at 27% above normal; the biggest drop was in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at 20% below (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
- Metro Atlanta landlords filed 144,000 cases in 2025 despite a roughly 4% decline, more than New Mexico, Minnesota, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Wisconsin combined (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
- New York City’s filing rate was only 5% in 2025, below most tracked locations despite high rents and low vacancy (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
- In 2024, Phoenix landlords filed a record 86,946 evictions, one every six minutes, for a filing rate of 14.3%, up from 10.6% before the pandemic (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- Las Vegas had the largest jump in 2024: 16,750 more filings than usual, with the rate rising from 9.8% to 14.3% (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- Nashville’s filing rate rose from 6.4% to 8.9% in 2024, about 4,000 extra cases (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- 15 of 35 tracked cities had a higher filing rate in 2024 than before the pandemic, and 10 of 35 had rates above 10% (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- New York City filings were at 52% of their pre-pandemic level in 2024. Leave New York out and 2024 filings across tracked sites were over 6% above the historical average (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
Eviction filings by state
These are the 11 states the Eviction Lab tracks statewide, for the 12 months before its October 1, 2026 update. “Vs. baseline” compares filings with the average for the same months in 2023 and 2024 (Eviction Lab, Eviction Tracking System 2026, https://evictionlab.org/eviction-tracking/).
| State | Filings, past 12 months | Filing rate | Vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 131,662 | 12% | -4% |
| Pennsylvania | 106,791 | 6% | -7% |
| Indiana | 70,554 | 9% | -4% |
| Missouri | 45,308 | 6% | -4% |
| Minnesota | 26,174 | 4% | +8% |
| Wisconsin | 25,191 | 3% | -7% |
| Connecticut | 16,562 | 3% | -18% |
| New Mexico | 13,104 | 5% | -11% |
| Delaware | 10,718 | 10% | -16% |
| Arkansas | 10,507 | 3% | +17% |
| Rhode Island | 6,681 | 4% | -14% |
For states outside that list, the longer-run national data is the guide. Some of the highest yearly filing rates are in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, and filing rates are consistently highest in the Southeast (Eviction Lab, New Data Release 2022, https://evictionlab.org/new-eviction-data-2022/).
The Lab also found that state rules requiring landlords to give tenants notice before filing, even a few days, go with lower filing rates (Eviction Lab, New Data Release 2022, https://evictionlab.org/new-eviction-data-2022/).
Eviction filing rates by city
The highest filing rates in tracked city areas over the same 12 months (Eviction Lab, Eviction Tracking System 2026, https://evictionlab.org/eviction-tracking/):
| City area | Filings, past 12 months | Filing rate | Vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta, GA | 142,047 | 24% | -5% |
| Richmond, VA | 20,274 | 21% | -2% |
| Charleston, SC | 11,283 | 18% | +10% |
| Memphis, TN | 26,170 | 16% | -12% |
| Indianapolis, IN | 23,917 | 13% | -10% |
| Phoenix, AZ | 84,813 | 13% | -0% |
| Las Vegas, NV | 43,766 | 12% | -17% |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 17,123 | 12% | -3% |
| Toledo, OH | 6,417 | 12% | +8% |
| New York, NY | 118,572 | 5% | -6% |
| Boston, MA | 8,121 | 3% | +0% |
- Richmond had the highest pre-pandemic filing rate among tracked cities at 27.6%, and its 2024 rate of 24.1% was still the highest in the dataset (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- Charleston’s rate fell from 22.7% before the pandemic to 15.8% in 2024 (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- In the Lab’s 2016 ranking of large cities by eviction rate (judgments, not just filings), North Charleston, SC led at 16.5%, followed by Richmond, VA at 11.44%, Hampton, VA at 10.49%, Newport News, VA at 10.23% and Jackson, MS at 8.75% (Eviction Lab, Eviction Rankings 2016 data, https://evictionlab.org/rankings/).
A few buildings drive a large share of cases
Most landlords rarely file. Filings cluster in a small number of buildings.
- As few as 100 buildings produced one in six evictions in Cleveland and two in five in Fayetteville, NC and Tucson, AZ over a ten-year period (Eviction Lab, Top Evicting Landlords 2021, https://evictionlab.org/top-evicting-landlords-drive-us-eviction-crisis/).
- Across 15 tracked cities in 2024, the top 100 buildings in each city filed 18,347 cases, an average of 32.6% of all filings. In Greenville, SC the share was 58.2% (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- In 2025, more than half of all filings in the Albuquerque and South Bend areas came from just 100 buildings (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
Who is named in eviction cases
These figures describe who ends up in court. Race, sex and familial status are protected under the Fair Housing Act, so none of them can play any part in how you screen applicants or decide whom to file against.
- An average of 7.6 million people a year lived in households threatened with eviction from 2007 to 2016, and 3.9 million lived in a household that received an eviction judgment (Eviction Lab, Who Is Evicted in America 2023, https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/).
- Only 42.1% of the people in those households were named on the court filing (Eviction Lab, Who Is Evicted in America 2023, https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/).
- 2.9 million children a year are threatened with eviction and 1.5 million are evicted (Eviction Lab, Who Is Evicted in America 2023, https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/).
- The filing rate for adults living with a child was 10.4%, against 5.0% for adults without children (Eviction Lab, Who Is Evicted in America 2023, https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/).
- In 2024, 58% of people named on filings in tracked areas were women, who make up 53% of renters there (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024, 2025, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2024/).
- In 2025, Black renters were 28% of renters in tracked areas and named in an estimated 39% of filings (Eviction Lab, Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025, 2026, https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2025/).
What state court data shows: Nebraska
Some states publish their own counts. Nebraska’s courts report eviction cases twice a year under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-232.
- 4,870 eviction proceedings were filed statewide from January 1 to June 30, 2025, including 2,545 in Douglas County (Omaha) and 1,107 in Lancaster County (Lincoln) (Nebraska Judicial Branch, Eviction Proceedings Bi-Annual Data Report, January-June 2025, https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/publication-report-files/Jan-June-2025.pdf).
- Courts entered 2,528 orders restoring the premises to the landlord in the same period, 792 of them by default (Nebraska Judicial Branch, Eviction Proceedings Bi-Annual Data Report, January-June 2025, https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/publication-report-files/Jan-June-2025.pdf).
- Landlords had a lawyer in 5,757 cases in the report, against 1,803 for tenants, 1,265 of them limited-scope help (Nebraska Judicial Branch, Eviction Proceedings Bi-Annual Data Report, January-June 2025, https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/publication-report-files/Jan-June-2025.pdf).
Evictions during the pandemic moratoriums
- The CDC moratorium, in force from September 4, 2020 to July 31, 2021, helped prevent an estimated 1.55 million eviction filings nationwide (Eviction Lab, 11 Months of the CDC Moratorium 2021, https://evictionlab.org/eleven-months-cdc/).
- Tracked sites saw 368,398 filings during those 11 months, 47.2% of a typical year’s count. The filing rate fell from about 8.1% to 3.8% (Eviction Lab, 11 Months of the CDC Moratorium 2021, https://evictionlab.org/eleven-months-cdc/).
- Federal, state and local policies together helped prevent at least 2.45 million filings from March 15, 2020 through July 2021 (Eviction Lab, 11 Months of the CDC Moratorium 2021, https://evictionlab.org/eleven-months-cdc/).
The rent pressure behind the numbers
Rent burden is the backdrop to these filings, and the share of income renters spend on housing keeps climbing.
- 22.7 million renter households (49%) were cost-burdened in 2024, a record, and 12.1 million (26%) spent more than half their income on rent and utilities (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, America’s Rental Housing 2026, https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/six-takeaways-americas-rental-housing-2026).
- From 2001 to 2024, renter incomes rose 9% after inflation while rents rose 30%. Lower-income renters had a record-low $210 a month left after rent (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, America’s Rental Housing 2026, https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/six-takeaways-americas-rental-housing-2026).
- The median renter housing cost was $1,406 a month in 2023, and 49.7% of the 42.5 million renter households for whom burden is calculated paid more than 30% of income (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023, https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/renter-households-cost-burdened-race.html).
Notice periods in high-filing states
Notice rules set the clock before you can file. These come from our own state data, reviewed 2026-10-18, not from the Eviction Lab. Timelines are typical uncontested cases and vary by county.
| State | Notice before filing for nonpayment | Typical uncontested timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 14-day pay or quit (up from 5 days on July 1, 2026) | 3-6 weeks |
| Georgia | 3-business-day notice to pay or vacate | 3-6 weeks |
| South Carolina | 5-day notice (can be waived by a conspicuous lease clause) | 2-4 weeks |
| Arizona | 5-day notice to pay or quit | 2-4 weeks |
| Nevada | 7-judicial-day notice to pay or quit | 2-4 weeks |
| Indiana | 10-day notice to pay or quit | 3-6 weeks |
| Minnesota | 14-day pre-filing notice | 3-5 weeks |
This is general information, not legal advice. Check your state’s statute and your county court’s self-help center before you serve a notice.
Questions landlords ask
The questions we get most, each answered in a paragraph.
How many evictions are filed in the US each year?
The most complete national estimate is from Princeton's Eviction Lab, which counted more than 3.6 million eviction cases filed in 2018, close to the yearly average of 3.6 million from 2000 to 2018. There is no newer full national count, because the federal government doesn't collect eviction data. The Lab's tracking system recorded 1.23 million filings in 2025 across 10 states and 38 city areas that hold about a third of US renter households.
Which states have the highest eviction rates?
Eviction Lab's national data puts some of the highest yearly filing rates in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, and the Southeast has led consistently. Among states it tracks month to month, Virginia had a 12% filing rate and Delaware 10% over the year to October 2026, against 3% in Arkansas, Connecticut and Wisconsin. City figures run higher: metro Atlanta was at 24%, Richmond 21% and Charleston 18%.
Does an eviction filing mean the tenant was evicted?
No. A filing is a court case, and many end with the tenant paying, a settlement, a dismissal or the tenant leaving before judgment. Eviction Lab estimates that from 2007 to 2016 about 7.6 million people a year lived in households threatened with eviction, and just over half of them, 3.9 million, lived in a household that got an eviction judgment. Filing rates are always higher than eviction rates.