Pratt City Eviction Risk: Moderate , Birmingham

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Food insecurity runs 32.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2/10.

SNAP participation runs 27.4% against 15.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

At $892 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Birmingham commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.3.

The filing record is not thin: 252 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2002 at 8.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Birmingham. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.