Albany Eviction Risk: Elevated

35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Linn County average of 42.7%. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.3/10. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, state political climate reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 671 filings here across 16 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 8.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 5.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Linn County average of 5.7 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,378, close to the Albany average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $70,927.

33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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