Southpointe Eviction Risk: Lower , Hoover

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. SNAP participation runs 2.8% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 0.8 points below the Shelby County average of 3.8. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 1% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.