Huntsville Eviction Risk: Lower

Average gross rent is $1,601, 37% above the Huntsville average. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.1/10. The voucher gap is 28.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Against Madison County at 39.4%, 29% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

SNAP participation runs 5.0% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 8.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 34 filings here across 11 tracked years. Against the Madison County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.2% of renter households.

In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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