Independence Eviction Risk: Lower

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.7/10. Against Kenton County at 37.9%, 47% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Severe burden reaches 18%. 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 1.9/10. Against the Kenton County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

At $1,359 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Independence commands. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.1/10. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $110,817, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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