Shively Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 31% here against 42.9% across Jefferson County. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10.

13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $1,048 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Shively commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 738 filings here across 14 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 17.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 13.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Jefferson County average of 4.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $54,708.

34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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