Athens Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 01083020101 · Limestone County, AL · pop 4,588 · 8% of tract blocks fall in Athens
Eviction risk in Athens eviction risk in Limestone County centers on tract 01083020101, which scores 3.8/10 (Lower tier) and is home to 4,588 residents. That is riskier than roughly 9% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 23% of renter households, a moderate level, and 4% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $982 a month while the average household earns $73,327 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 18% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Athens and the region
Centroid at 34.8682, -86.8660 · click any tract to drill in
Why Athens scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Athens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 39
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 85Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2014)
- 10Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.4%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.8%Food insecurity
- 8.9%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 8.6%No health insurance
- 17.1%Frequent mental distress
- 34.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Athens
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.7/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Athens eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Limestone County average of 3.9 and below the Alabama statewide average of 4.5. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 39th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
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Highest-risk tracts in Athens
Top eight tracts in Athens ranked by composite eviction-risk score.