Wardwell Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hattiesburg

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. At $1,310 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Hattiesburg commands.

66% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

The voucher gap is 14.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Lamar County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $88,079, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MS average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 38% of renters.

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