Phoenix Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 29% here against 46.0% across Maricopa County. At $349 a month, rents run 78% under what the rest of Phoenix commands.

SNAP participation runs 42.9% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Housing insecurity runs 30.5% against 14.2% nationally.

It sits 1.3 points above the Maricopa County average of 3.7. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 80 filings here across 5 tracked years. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The worst year on record was 2004, when 2.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Phoenix. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

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.