Phenix City Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. At $758 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Phenix City commands.

Against Russell County at 43.2%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. The filing record is not thin: 115 evictions over 9 years of observation. It sits 0.7 points below the Russell County average of 3.7.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 8.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 15% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $69,176, an unusually wide affordability cushion. 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.