Kalispell South Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.3/10.

At $1,361 a month, rents run 26% over what the rest of Kalispell commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.7/10. Against the Flathead County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $87,215.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.