Bentonville Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.4/10.

70% 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, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.4% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 19.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Benton County average of 3.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $108,021, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,327, close to the Bentonville average.

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.