Decatur Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

At $685 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Decatur commands. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 26.7% against 17.8% nationally. 9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 169 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 18.6% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2006 at 6.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.