Latonia Eviction Risk: Moderate , Covington

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.7/10. 48% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Kenton County average of 37.9%.

At $1,243 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Covington commands. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Against the Kenton County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Covington. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.