Whitefish Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.7/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. SNAP participation runs 4.8% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,565, 16% above the Whitefish average.

Against the Flathead County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, 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 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $91,563.

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.