Benning Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus
Tract 13215003200 · Muscogee County, GA · pop 2,245 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of 5/10, tract 13215003200 in the Benning Park area of Columbus, GA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,245 residents. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 37.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 32.4305, -84.9434 · click any tract to drill in
Why Benning Park scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Benning Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 85%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 44.1%Housing insecurity
- 37.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 60.6%Food insecurity
- 66.7%SNAP enrollment
- 32.8%Transit barriers
- 27.4%No health insurance
- 26.4%Frequent mental distress
- 53.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Benning Park
At $663 a month, rents run 40% under what the rest of Columbus commands. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.2/10.
This is renter territory: 89% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 27.4% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Muscogee County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.
That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. about half of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $27,431.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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