West Side Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 39%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Cost burden runs around two-thirds against 45.1% citywide, putting West Side 19.8% over its own city. What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 58%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. 91% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over.

Sitting well above the midpoint is housing-court posture at 9.6/10. Food insecurity affects 30.1% of adults, 12.3 points above the national rate.

15.7% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Court records for this tract carry 50 eviction filings. Average gross rent is $865, 14% below the Athens average of $1,011.

One tract means one number: 7.7/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.