Hartselle Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Cost burden runs roughly one in four here against 32.5% across Morgan County. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 84 filings here across 12 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $909, 13% above the Hartselle average.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 3.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $66,859, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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