Dalton Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. Average gross rent is $713, 28% below the Dalton average.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Whitfield County average of 3.9.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.8% against 11.3% nationally.

40% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Whitfield County average of 35.7%. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $42,370.

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