Birmingham Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. It sits 1.3 points below the Jefferson County average of 4.3.

SNAP participation runs 6.7% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 262 eviction filings across 11 observed years. Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 7.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Birmingham. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.