West End-Cobb Town Eviction Risk: Moderate

The heaviest input here is economic stress at 6.5/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from West End-Cobb Town, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Calhoun County average of 4.7 and below the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 133 eviction filings here over 14 tracked years, with about 3.5% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 5.8% of renter households in 2014.

In CDC survey modeling, about 15.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.