Berea Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against Madison County at 36.3%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $24,583, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

It sits 1.5 points above the Madison County average of 3.9. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. Average gross rent is $744, 11% below the Berea average.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

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