Eviction filings fell in 2025 for the second straight year in the cities and states tracked in a new report — areas home to roughly a third of the country’s renters — though some of those places saw increases.

Landlords filed more than 1.23 million eviction cases in the 10 states and 38 cities where data was collectedby Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, a research center. That’s slightly lower than the 1.25 million in 2024. 

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Across those locations, the average eviction filing rate was 7.9%, which means that landlords filed roughly one eviction case for every 13 renter households in 2025.

The areas of Atlanta (25%); Richmond, Virginia (24%); Charleston, South Carolina (17%); and Indianapolis (14%) had filing rates that were at least double the national average, the report said. In Atlanta, landlords filed 144,000 eviction cases, a 4% drop from previous years. 

Eviction filings were up in 13 of the 48 sites relative to the typical number of eviction cases filed annually in 2023 and 2024 — with the highest increase at 30% in the greater Austin, Texas, area. Miami recorded far fewer cases, with the largest drop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where landlords filed 20% fewer cases than average.

New York City had a comparatively low eviction filing rate, at 5%. Researchers credit strong tenant protections such as universal access of lawyers for eviction cases in court despite high-rents and a competitive real estate market. 

The report also found that Black renters are significantly overrepresented in eviction filing cases. Despite making up 28% of the renter population, 39% of eviction filings tracked by Eviction Lab named a Black defendant. In contrast, 37% of eviction filings were against white defendants, lower than their 45% of the renter population.

Like previous years, the report also found that eviction cases are concentrated among a small number of landlords.