Dothan Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.2/10.

The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Cost burden runs 49% here against 38.9% across Houston County. Housing insecurity runs 29.9% against 14.2% nationally.

At $709 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Dothan commands. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Against the Houston County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 143 evictions over 9 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 5.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.6/10. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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.