Mobile Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $857 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Mobile commands.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.5/10. Cost burden runs 39% here against 43.6% across Mobile County. It sits 0.9 points below the Mobile County average of 4.0.

The filing record is not thin: 165 evictions over 10 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2006 at 8.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #65,414 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $59,785, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 46% 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.