Forrest Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hattiesburg

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Housing insecurity runs 25.6% against 14.2% nationally.

On the softer side, housing-court posture reads 2.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

It sits 0.8 points above the Forrest County average of 4.1. At $1,137 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Hattiesburg commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the MS average is 4.1, so this tract runs 0.8 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.