Robert M Hitch Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Savannah

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

At $1,787 a month, rents run 29% over what the rest of Savannah commands. Against Chatham County at 46.6%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the Chatham County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 15 filings here across 1 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 7.9% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 12.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The worst year on record was 2011, when 2.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5/10, 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.