Athens Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Against the Limestone County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. SNAP participation runs 6.1% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 8% 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 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.