Americana Eviction Risk: Elevated , Oak Ridge

Against Orange County at 51.4%, 78% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 2.9 points above the Orange County average of 4.2.

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $45,188, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 29.5% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 642 filings here across 9 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 27.5% of renter households were served.

At $1,587 a month, rents run 8% over what the rest of Oak Ridge commands. In a typical year about 13.0% of renter households face a filing.

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.