Bessemer Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 40.1% against 17.8% nationally. Annualized rent equals 44% of average household income of $35,313, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. At $1,290 a month, rents run 34% over what the rest of Bessemer commands.

Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.3/10. SNAP participation runs 34.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.5 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.3.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Cost burden runs 41% here against 46.3% across Jefferson County.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 112 filings here across 11 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2001 at 6.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.5/10.

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.