Opelika Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is state political climate at 1.8/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2/10.

Against Lee County at 46.8%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 0.9 points below the Lee County average of 3.9. Average gross rent is $820, 14% below the Opelika average.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 13% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.7/10. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $78,920, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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