Habersham Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Athens

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 98% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 9.3/10.

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $33,728, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Clarke County average of 5.9. Average gross rent is $972, 20% below the Athens average.

Nationally it ranks #11,988 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.