West Lake Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.9/10. The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

24.3% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the softer side is eviction-process difficulty, at 1.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.

Severe burden reaches 20%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Disability prevalence reaches 50.0% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute.

Court records for this tract carry 189 eviction filings. The worst year on record was 2005, when filings touched 4.5% of renter households.

Average gross rent is $878, 9% below the Bessemer average of $961. Recent filings have not receded much: 4.0% in 2016 against a 4.5% peak. That places it #1 of 7 neighborhoods in Bessemer.

For a like-for-like read, Anns Trailer Court and Smith Highlands score within a fraction of it.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 5.8/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.