Opelika Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Lee County average of 3.9.

Against Lee County at 46.8%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.9/10. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the AL average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $920, close to the Opelika average.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $49,911. 44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.