Midway Forest Eviction Risk: Lower , Lexington

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. 48% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Lexington County average of 37.2%. The voucher gap is 27.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

Against the Lexington County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 160 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Housing insecurity runs 6.4% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2012 at 10.3% of renter households.

In a typical year about 8.1% of renter households face a filing.

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.