Laurel Hill Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling the other way is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.2/10. Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1.2/10.

21% 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. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 24.7% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. 16.9% 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.

Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.3/10. Court records for this tract carry 1,361 eviction filings. At $967 a month, rents sit 15% under what the rest of Augusta commands.

The worst year on record was 2007, when filings touched 24.4% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 15.0% in 2010 against a 24.4% peak.

Among the 30 mapped neighborhoods of Augusta, it ranks #24 by risk, the lower third. The closest comparables inside the same city are Windsor Court and Rockbrook.

Social vulnerability runs high at 8.8/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 3/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.