Whitefish Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 44.9% across Flathead County. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. At $3,183 a month, rents run 135% over what the rest of Whitefish commands.

The voucher gap is 94.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Annualized rent equals 45% of average household income of $85,779, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.7/10. Food insecurity runs 5.4% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.8 points below the Flathead County average of 3.8.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 12% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 3.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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