Fort Smith Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 45.6% against 17.8% nationally. roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Sebastian County average of 38.9%.

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $29,842, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.9/10.

Housing insecurity runs 32.3% against 14.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Against the Sebastian County average of 3.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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