Smith Residential Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 80% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Cost burden runs 36% here against 44.6% across Muscogee County.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10. SNAP participation runs 23.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 26.2% against 17.8% nationally. At $988 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Columbus commands. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Columbus. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #44,239 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.1/10.

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.