Owensboro Eviction Risk: Lower

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 46% here against 35.1% across Daviess County. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Court records carry 87 eviction filings across 4 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 3.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. It tracks the Daviess County average of 3.6 closely.

Average gross rent is $891, close to the Owensboro average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $56,360.

39% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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