Buford Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 13139001502 · Hall County, GA · pop 4,007 · 26% of tract blocks fall in Buford
With a score of 5.9/10, tract 13139001502 in Buford ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 4,007 residents. That is riskier than about 72% of US census tracts.
About 63% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 42% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,653 monthly, set against $115,556 in average yearly household income, roughly 17% of income at the averages. Renters make up 13% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Buford and the region
Centroid at 34.1569, -84.0070 · click any tract to drill in
Why Buford scores 1.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Buford compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 22Total filings over 1 yrs
- 11.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.9%Peak (2003)
- 22Filings in 2003 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.1%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.1%Food insecurity
- 5.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 27.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Buford
The score leans hardest on rent-control risk at 6.7/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Buford, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Hall County average of 5.6 and above the Georgia statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 11th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 8.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 13139001502
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Highest-risk tracts in Buford
Top eight tracts in Buford ranked by composite eviction-risk score.