Festus Eviction Risk: Moderate

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 0.9 points above the Jefferson County average of 3.5. Court records carry 332 eviction filings across 14 observed years. 28% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Jefferson County average of 32.9%.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 6.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $78,654, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Average gross rent is $977, close to the Festus average. 41% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.