Avondale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Savannah

Cost burden runs 64% here against 46.6% across Chatham County. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $43,485, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Chatham County average of 4.1.

The filing record is not thin: 181 evictions over 1 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 22.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,208, 13% below the Savannah average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2011, when 20.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Savannah. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 20.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.