Valdosta Eviction Risk: Elevated

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10.

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 9.4/10.

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $30,125, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

It sits 1.8 points above the Lowndes County average of 4.9. Disability prevalence runs 47.1% against 31.5% nationally. Average gross rent is $826, 22% below the Valdosta average.

Against Lowndes County at 42.1%, 35% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10. Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.