Billings Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.7/10.

On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 1.0 points above the Yellowstone County average of 3.6. At $1,318 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Billings commands.

Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $58,068. 27% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.