Geyer Springs Eviction Risk: Lower , Little Rock

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. SNAP participation runs 26.4% against 15.2% nationally.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Pulaski County average of 3.9 closely. Average gross rent is $1,092, close to the Little Rock average.

Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $46,995. 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.