Parish Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dothan

The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. Food insecurity runs 27.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Against the Houston County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 223 evictions over 9 years of observation.

SNAP participation runs 22.9% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2010 at 6.8% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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