Dearing Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Athens

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $35,565, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.6/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against Clarke County at 54.5%, 46% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 1.2 points above the Clarke County average of 5.9.

At $978 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Athens commands. Nationally it ranks #12,481 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.

Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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