Uptown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Athens

Cost burden runs 93% here against 47.1% across Athens County. Annualized rent equals 139% of average household income of $11,107, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 48.1% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 87%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 98% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.7/10.

Against the Athens County average of 5.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.4 points. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.6/10. At $1,283 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Athens commands.

The voucher gap is 23.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Housing insecurity runs 26.7% against 14.2% nationally.

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.