Forest Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Little Rock

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Pulaski County average of 3.9 closely. Average gross rent is $1,141, close to the Little Rock average.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $62,772.

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.