Northport Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

The voucher gap is 20.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. It sits 1.1 points below the Tuscaloosa County average of 4.1.

SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 25 eviction filings across 6 observed years.

Food insecurity runs 10.2% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2014, when 5.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.9% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.