Alabama Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chickasaw

The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Set annual rent against average income of $29,625 and the ratio lands at 41%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.8% against 31.5% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 27.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

It sits 2.0 points above the Mobile County average of 4.0. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. Cost burden runs 50% here against 43.6% across Mobile County.

Court records carry 110 eviction filings across 10 observed years. At $1,006 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Prichard commands. The worst year on record was 2007, when 4.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.