Eviction risk, scored for every US city.
Search any city for its risk score, eviction timeline, cost band, rent-control coverage, and full operator brief.
Highest-risk cities in the US.
National rankings
Worst Cities for Landlords 2026
Top 100 by Eviction Risk Score
View ranking →Least Affordable Cities for Renters
Where renters spend the highest share of income on rent
View ranking →Best Cities for Landlords
Bottom 100 by Eviction Risk Score
View ranking →Rent Control Cities
AB 1482, HSTPA, and local RSOs
View ranking →Operator playbooks
All guides →Eviction Process
Universal 9-step landlord workflow
Eviction Timeline
Days from filing → judgment, by state
Eviction Costs
What an eviction actually costs you
Security Deposit Limits
Caps + return rules by state
Notice Templates
State-compliant pay-or-quit + cure forms
Tenant Rights
What your tenant can do back
Free consultation from NextGen Properties.
We've operated California rentals for 20+ years. Get a free brief covering rent-control exposure, notice requirements, and eviction defense risk for your specific property.
Real data, no fabrication.
We publish landlord eviction risk scores for every city in our database: 31,828 cities in total, covering all 50 states and Washington, DC, across 1,849 counties. Each city gets a primary score from 1 to 10 plus nine sub-scores: local political climate, regional political climate, state political climate, economic stress, supply constraint, rent-control risk, eviction process difficulty, tenant organizing strength, and housing court bias.
Underlying numbers come from real public sources: US Census ACS 2023 5-year estimates (poverty, unemployment, rent burden, renter share, median gross rent), the 2024 Census Gazetteer (geometry and county centroids), MIT Election Lab 2020 county presidential margins, and state-level landlord-tenant statute summaries. Where a source has no value, we leave the cell NULL: we never synthesize data.
Sub-scores are expressed as national percentile rankings. A rent-burden sub-score of 8.5 means that city is in the 85th percentile nationally, higher than 85% of all US cities. Scores stay directly comparable across state lines even when the underlying statute regime differs.
Browse 50 states + DC
Each state's bar shows its average risk across all covered cities. Click to drill down.
Tenant-protective vs. landlord-neutral
Top 12 each, cities over 50k population, ranked by Eviction Risk Score.
High risk Tenant-protective cities
Low risk Landlord-neutral cities
Essential guides for rental owners
Everything you need to understand rent control, the eviction process, and how to stay compliant.
Real data, no fabrication
We publish landlord eviction risk scores for every city in our database - 31,828 cities in total, covering all 50 states and Washington, DC, across 1,849 counties. Each city gets a primary score from 1 to 10 plus nine sub-scores: local political climate, regional political climate, state political climate, economic stress, supply constraint, rent-control risk, eviction process difficulty, tenant organizing strength, and housing court bias.
Underlying numbers come from real public sources: US Census ACS 2023 5-year estimates (poverty rate, unemployment, rent burden, renter share, median gross rent), the 2024 Census Gazetteer (geometry and county centroids), MIT Election Lab 2020 county presidential margins, and state-level landlord-tenant statute summaries. Where a source has no value, we leave the cell NULL - we never synthesize data.
Sub-scores are expressed as national percentile rankings. For example, a rent-burden sub-score of 8.5 means that city is in the 85th percentile nationally for median gross rent as a percentage of household income - higher than 85% of all US cities. This makes scores directly comparable across state lines even when the underlying statute regime differs.
If you own or manage rental property, use the map above to see how your city compares, then click any city for the full breakdown, typical eviction cost, expected timeline, and the specific data points that drive its risk classification.