Lexington Eviction Risk: Lower

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Cost burden runs 42% here against 37.2% across Lexington County. Court records carry 1,593 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,398 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Lexington commands. The worst year on record was 2013, when 32.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 28.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 33% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.1/10, 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 Lexington County average of 3.9 closely.

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.