Cather Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lincoln

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 76% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. At $826 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Lincoln commands.

Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 1.2 points above the Lancaster County average of 3.8. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.3/10.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 700 eviction filings across 14 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 6.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lincoln. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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