Gainesville Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Alachua County at 50.9%, roughly three in four of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.1/10. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $35,237, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 46.7% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Alachua County average of 4.1. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.9% against 11.3% nationally. Court records carry 594 eviction filings across 8 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 19.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 12.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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