Swift Creek Eviction Risk: Moderate , Redan

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $60,676 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 1,166 evictions over 8 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 22.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Against DeKalb County at 52.2%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Average gross rent is $1,726, 10% above the Redan average. The worst year on record was 2014, when 47.0% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 43.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 25% 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.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.9/10.

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