Bridgewater Eviction Risk: Elevated , Athens

Annualized rent equals 79% of average household income of $20,539, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

Cost burden runs 71% here against 54.5% across Clarke County. The poverty rate is 60%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.6/10. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

Against the Clarke County average of 5.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Food insecurity runs 29.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,344, 10% above the Athens 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.

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.