Decatur Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

Food insecurity runs 27.4% against 17.8% nationally. Against Morgan County at 32.5%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $1,038 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Decatur commands. The filing record is not thin: 101 evictions over 12 years of observation. The voucher gap is 12.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 10.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.