Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kalispell

The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $657 a month, rents run 39% under what the rest of Kalispell commands. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.3/10. It sits 1.6 points above the Flathead County average of 3.8.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.7/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MT average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $30,099. 62% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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