Homestead Eviction Risk: Lower , Mesa

At $2,269 a month, rents run 40% over what the rest of Mesa commands. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.7% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 16.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 7 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Against the Maricopa County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 7.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 13% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.4/10.

Against average income of $165,750, annual rent is just 16%.

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