Junction City Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

Against Geary County at 38.8%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened. The voucher gap is 16.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Average gross rent is $1,154, 13% above the Junction City average.

Against the Geary County average of 3.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 4.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $86,518, annual rent is just 16%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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