West Haven Eviction Risk: Moderate

30.8% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity affects 53.5% of adults, 35.7 points above the national rate.

The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Severe burden reaches 28%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Set annual rent against average household income of $25,920 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Well under the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10.

At $796 a month, rents sit 25% under what the rest of Tuscaloosa commands. Running cool is supply constraint, at 2/10. Court records for this tract carry 152 eviction filings.

Filing activity peaked in 2016 at 7.2% of renter households. That places it #1 of 24 neighborhoods in Tuscaloosa. Judgments average 2.6% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

One tract means one number: 5.2/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.