Mesa Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $802, 50% below the Mesa average. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Food insecurity runs 37.9% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Housing insecurity runs 24.7% against 14.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 14 filings here across 4 tracked years. It sits 0.9 points above the Maricopa County average of 3.7.

Filings peaked in 2005 at 1.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 0.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 13% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.