Berea Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

29% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Madison County average of 36.3%. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Madison County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. At $746 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Berea commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.1/10. Against average income of $62,379, annual rent is just 14%.

Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 30% 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.