Macon-Bibb County Eviction Risk: Elevated

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10. At $696 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Macon-Bibb County commands. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Cost burden runs 40% here against 51.4% across Bibb County. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Bibb County average of 4.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 604 filings here across 8 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 24.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 23.7% of renter households face a filing.

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