Oak Forrest Eviction Risk: Lower

Average gross rent is $1,523, 52% above the Hattiesburg average of $1,005. The voucher gap is 33.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

The clearest offset is economic stress, at 1/10. Running cool is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.6/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint is supply constraint at 8.3/10. 10% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation is 5.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally. That places it #10 of 11 neighborhoods in Hattiesburg. Only 27% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Against average income of $106,665, annual rent is only 17%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

With little internal variation, 3/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.