Decatur Eviction Risk: Moderate

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Disability prevalence runs 46.6% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 25.6% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Morgan County average of 3.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 566 filings here across 12 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 9.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.3% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.