Opelika Eviction Risk: Moderate

Set annual rent against average income of $24,283 and the ratio lands at 48%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The main counterweight is state political climate at 1.8/10.

Food insecurity runs 33.9% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Lee County average of 3.9.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Housing insecurity runs 23.3% against 14.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Opelika eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.