East Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Billings

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. At $816 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Billings commands.

The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.7/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Yellowstone County average of 3.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 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. 42% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $41,433.

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