Decatur Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Cost burden runs about a quarter here against 32.5% across Morgan County. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 72 evictions over 12 years of observation.

Food insecurity runs 9.5% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 20.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 11.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 2% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 1.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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