About Eviction Risk Map
A free landlord-risk scoring tool covering every routable US city. Published by NextGen Properties, a $750M+ AUM real estate operator.
What this site is
Eviction Risk Map scores 32,000+ US cities, 3,100+ counties, and all 50 states plus DC on landlord-side eviction exposure. The score combines nine sub-factors: 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. Each sub-factor is computed from ACS 2023 5-year estimates, 2020 county presidential election margin, and a state-law multiplier reflecting statutory and case-law differences across jurisdictions.
Who runs it
Eviction Risk Map is published by NextGen Properties, a real estate operator with over $750 million in assets under management. The site exists because the founding team kept getting the same question from landlord clients: "how landlord-friendly is this market?" Existing answers were either vague (single-letter state grades) or buried inside paid legal research databases. We built the dataset publicly so the answer is one URL away.
Why our editorial perspective is landlord-side
We own and operate rental property. Every page on this site reflects something we've had to think about on a real deal — whether a county clerk rejects complaints over a missing date, whether the sheriff actually executes writs on the posted schedule, whether the local eviction-defense bar will turn a routine non-payment into a six-month contested case. Tenant-rights groups already publish their view of the same statutes. We publish ours. If you're underwriting a building and need to know what eviction actually costs in time and dollars in a specific market, this is the resource we built for ourselves first.
Editorial review and update cadence
Every page shows a visible last-updated date and a statute-citation footer. We rescore the full dataset quarterly against the latest ACS 5-year release, and the legal sections get rewritten any time a state legislature passes a meaningful change — most recently rent-control opt-ins (CA, OR, WA), just-cause expansions, and security-deposit cap reductions. Our research lead reviews state-level statute changes before they ship; city-level data points pull straight from Census tables so they reflect the most recent ACS release with no manual transcription step in between.
Limitations and disclosure
This is a market-research tool. It is not legal advice. Statute citations are accurate to the best of our research as of each page's last-updated date, but state legislatures and city councils move faster than any data refresh cycle — always confirm current statutes with a licensed attorney in the relevant jurisdiction before filing an eviction or closing on a building. The full scoring methodology is published at our methodology page, and our source-quality and review standards are documented in our editorial guidelines.
Contact
Phone: (949) 392-8666
Web: nextgenproperties.com
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