Lexington Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $945 a month, rents run 39% under what the rest of Lexington commands. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. The filing record is not thin: 486 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 29.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 21.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $69,583, annual rent is just 16%. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

around a third of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Lexington County average of 3.9 closely.

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