Athens Eviction Risk: Moderate

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Disability prevalence runs 50.7% against 31.5% nationally.

Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.5/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10.

Against the Limestone County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 80 filings here across 11 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 3.3% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

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