University Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Athens
Tract 13059150500 · Clarke County, GA · pop 5,272 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
How risky is University Heights in Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) for landlords? Census tract 13059150500 scores 7.5/10, the Elevated tier. It lands near the 99th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
58% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 46% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,236 a month while the average household earns $39,084 a year, roughly 38% of income at the averages. About 85% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Athens and the region
Centroid at 33.9254, -83.3510 · click any tract to drill in
Why University Heights scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow University Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 85%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.7%Housing insecurity
- 10.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.0%Food insecurity
- 17.7%SNAP enrollment
- 13.6%Transit barriers
- 12.9%No health insurance
- 23.5%Frequent mental distress
- 30.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in University Heights
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Athens eviction risk-Clarke County unified government (balance), while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Clarke County average of 6.9 and above the Georgia statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 54th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 15.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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