Sunrise East Eviction Risk: Moderate , Birmingham

roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Jefferson County average of 46.3%. Average gross rent is $1,438, 30% above the Birmingham average. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 23.5% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Jefferson County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 120 filings here across 11 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The voucher gap is 13.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 10.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

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.