H &K Trailer Court Eviction Risk: Elevated , Decatur

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.6/10. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 69% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10.

Against the Macon County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Food insecurity runs 28.4% against 17.8% nationally.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $753 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Decatur commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.