Renaissance on the River Eviction Risk: Elevated , Macon-Bibb County

Set annual rent against average income of $25,438 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

On the high side, economic stress reads 9/10. Against Bibb County at 51.4%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 1.1 points above the Bibb County average of 4.9.

The filing record is not thin: 280 evictions over 8 years of observation. Average gross rent is $960, 10% below the Macon-Bibb County average. Filings peaked in 2007 at 11.1% of renter households.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Macon. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 6.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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