DeKalb Highlands Eviction Risk: Lower , Dunwoody

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.6% against 31.5% nationally.

Against the DeKalb County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. Food insecurity runs 7.9% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 645 filings here across 8 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 35.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 22.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $126,667, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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