Athens Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $1,143 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Athens commands. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Against Limestone County at 30.1%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, economic stress reads 2/10. The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The filing record is not thin: 122 evictions over 11 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2007, when 20.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 6.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

It tracks the Limestone County average of 4.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $62,066. 28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.