Brownstones at Decatur Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 15.1% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Against the DeKalb County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 10% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $180,375, annual rent is just 12%. Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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