Melrose District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Phoenix

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against the Maricopa County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.2/10. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 964 filings here across 5 tracked years.

At $1,765 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Phoenix commands. Filings peaked in 2002 at 21.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 15.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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