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 composite 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 — 32,212 cities in total, covering all 50 states and Washington, DC, across 1,808 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.