South Gate Eviction Risk: Lower , Huntsville

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. At $860 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Huntsville commands.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Food insecurity runs 7.0% against 17.8% nationally.

35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Madison County average of 39.4%. Against the Madison County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $98,504, an unusually wide affordability cushion. 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.

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