East End Eviction Risk: Moderate

Set annual rent against average household income of $17,466 and the ratio lands at 72%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Cost burden runs 70% against 33.5% citywide, putting East End 36.7% over its own city.

What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 61%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. 83% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over.

On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. Food insecurity affects 34.3% of adults, 16.5 points above the national rate.

SNAP participation is 28.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Court records for this tract carry 39 eviction filings. Well under the midpoint is housing-court posture, at 2.5/10.

The worst year on record was 2001, when filings touched 1.0% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 0.5% in 2016, is well off that peak. That places it #1 of 24 neighborhoods in Tuscaloosa.

Average gross rent runs $1,052, close to the Tuscaloosa average.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 5.2/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.