Fort Smith Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 46.7% against 17.8% nationally. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.4/10.

The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $685, 23% below the Fort Smith average.

Against the Sebastian County average of 3.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $35,754.

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