Festus Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Against Jefferson County at 32.9%, roughly one in four of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Jefferson County average of 3.5. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

At $775 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Festus commands. The filing record is not thin: 422 evictions over 14 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2004 at 6.2% of renter households.

In a typical year about 4.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $70,006, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

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.