Provident Eviction Risk: Elevated

The poverty rate is 50%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 9.7/10.

Severe burden reaches 33%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. 24.2% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over.

Running hot is housing-court posture at 8.1/10. Disability prevalence reaches 44.6% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. At $925 a month, rents sit 12% under what the rest of Valdosta commands.

Among the 14 mapped neighborhoods of Valdosta, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third. The closest comparables inside the same city are Prescott and Forrest Place.

Social vulnerability runs high at 9.1/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input. The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0 points apart at the extremes.

The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.