The Glens Eviction Risk: Moderate , Tuscaloosa

At $706 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Tuscaloosa commands. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Disability prevalence runs 48.1% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. 50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Tuscaloosa County average of 43.3%.

It sits 1.1 points above the Tuscaloosa County average of 4.1. The filing record is not thin: 93 evictions over 6 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2002 at 3.8% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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