Griffin Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dothan
Tract 01069040302 · Houston County, AL · pop 4,013 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Census tract 01069040302 runs through the Griffin Heights area of Dothan. With 4,013 residents, it scores 4.7/10 for landlords. It lands near the 30th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 41% of renter households, a severe level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $928 a month against an average household income of $47,964 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 51% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Dothan and the region
Centroid at 31.2755, -85.4348 · click any tract to drill in
Why Griffin Heights scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Griffin Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 78%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 254Total filings over 9 yrs
- 4.34%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.8%Peak (2009)
- 31Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 16.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.4%Food insecurity
- 26.1%SNAP enrollment
- 15.3%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 20.7%Frequent mental distress
- 42.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Griffin Heights
What moves this score most is economic stress at 7.2/10. 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 Dothan eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Houston County average of 4.5 and in line with the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is Black and White and ranks around the 93rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 254 eviction filings here over 9 tracked years, with about 4.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 7.8% of renter households in 2009.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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