Experiment Eviction Risk: Elevated

SNAP participation runs 42.2% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 47%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10. Set annual rent against average income of $30,605 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.5 points above the Spalding County average of 4.5.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Cost burden runs 43% here against 36.8% across Spalding County. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $929, close to the Experiment average.

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