Prescott Eviction Risk: Lower

78% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Yavapai County average of 41.3%. The main counterweight is state political climate at 2.2/10. Average gross rent is $1,750, 25% above the Prescott average.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.6/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.8% against 15.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 25% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Yavapai County average of 3.8 closely. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $88,393.

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.