Broad Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $576, 50% below the Augusta average of $1,142. This is a renter market: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

29% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling the other way is supply constraint, at 1/10.

On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.2/10. The poverty rate is 27%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.3/10. Court records for this tract carry 927 eviction filings. Food insecurity affects 28.7% of adults, 10.9 points above the national rate.

14.9% 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. The worst year on record was 2007, when filings touched 15.1% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 11.2% in 2010 against a 15.1% peak.

One tract means one number: 5.1/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.