Blytheville Commercial Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

70% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Mississippi County average of 40.3%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Food insecurity runs 49.2% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 52%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 54.0% against 31.5% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $27,174, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Mississippi County average of 4.2. Court records carry 2 eviction filings across 2 observed years.

The voucher gap is 12.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $950 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Blytheville commands.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 0.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 0.2% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.