College Town Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against a Tallahassee baseline of 36.5%, 53% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. 38% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. 91% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. Average gross rent is $824, 36% below the Tallahassee average of $1,293.

The 8 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 3 to 5.4, a 2.4-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10. Running hot is economic stress at 7.7/10.

Court records carry 3,905 eviction filings across its 5 observed tracts. The worst year on record was 2007, when filings touched 16.0% of renter households. Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 3/10.

The most recent observed rate, 4.8% in 2018, is well off that peak. That places it #6 of 16 neighborhoods in Tallahassee.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Richview Park and All Saints.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 2.4 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.