Athens Eviction Risk: Lower

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Cost burden runs 23% here against 30.1% across Limestone County. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10.

The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The filing record is not thin: 104 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.1% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #50,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 16% 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 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $74,792, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.