Fort Smith Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 1.5/10. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $1,050 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Fort Smith commands.

SNAP participation runs 5.1% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 15.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Sebastian County average of 3.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.4/10. Against average income of $98,284, annual rent is just 13%.

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