Decatur Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 220 evictions over 12 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2002 at 2.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $56,175, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Morgan County average of 3.5 closely.

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