Salem West Eviction Risk: Lower , Stonecrest

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. Against DeKalb County at 52.2%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 1.1 points below the DeKalb County average of 4.5. Housing insecurity runs 21.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $115,341, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 0.8 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,565, close to the Stonecrest average. 32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.