Tidwell Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dothan

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 56.5% against 17.8% nationally. Against Houston County at 38.9%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 32.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 43%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $17,944 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

At $679 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Dothan commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

It sits 0.9 points above the Houston County average of 3.9.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.