Buford Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 13139001607 · Hall County, GA · pop 6,147 · 36% of tract blocks fall in Buford
Tract 13139001607 sits in Buford, GA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.4/10. Population here is 6,147. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Buford and the region
Centroid at 34.1483, -83.9551 · click any tract to drill in
Why Buford scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Buford compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 55
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%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)
- 55Total filings over 1 yrs
- 32.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 32.0%Peak (2003)
- 55Filings 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.
- 11.8%Housing insecurity
- 7.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.7%Food insecurity
- 9.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 11.9%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 28.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Buford
The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 33% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Hall County average of 44.6%. Average gross rent is $1,725, 27% above the Buford average.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 55 filings here across 1 tracked years. The voucher gap is 14.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Filings peaked in 2003 at 32.0% of renter households.
In a typical year about 32.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Only 16% 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 5.9/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Hall County average of 4.3 closely.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
About tract 13139001607
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 13139001607?
What is the average rent in tract 13139001607?
What is the poverty rate in tract 13139001607?
How socially vulnerable is tract 13139001607?
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 13139001607?
What share of households in tract 13139001607 struggle to pay rent?
How does tract 13139001607 compare to Buford overall?
Highest-risk tracts in Buford
Top eight tracts in Buford ranked by composite eviction-risk score.