Little Rock Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Housing insecurity runs 34.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Set annual rent against average income of $26,359 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 42.5% across Pulaski County. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Average gross rent is $879, 21% below the Little Rock average. It sits 0.8 points above the Pulaski County average of 3.9. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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