Medulla Eviction Risk: Lower

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 372 eviction filings across 17 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2000 at 13.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 6.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.4/10.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 44% of renters.

It tracks the Polk County average of 3.9 closely. Average gross rent is $1,256, close to the Medulla average.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $63,669.

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.