Tempe Junction Eviction Risk: Moderate

This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 1.9 points above the Maricopa County average of 3.7.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.2/10.

Court records carry 3,217 eviction filings across 5 observed years. At $1,561 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Tempe commands. The worst year on record was 2003, when 29.0% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 25.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.9/10.

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