Opelika Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.3/10. At $1,207 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Opelika commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Lee County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $100,990, annual rent is just 14%. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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