Provident Eviction Risk: Elevated , Valdosta

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $33,226, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.7/10. Against the Lowndes County average of 4.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.7% against 11.3% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 42% of renters.

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