Decatur Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.4/10. At $1,125 a month, rents run 26% over what the rest of Decatur commands.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. 24% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Morgan County average of 32.5%. The voucher gap is 21.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Court records carry 32 eviction filings across 12 observed years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 12.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 11% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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