DeSoto Homes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Rome

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.3/10. Average gross rent is $693, 33% below the Rome average. 79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Floyd County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. 36% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Floyd County average of 43.6%.

14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 631 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 19.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 12.6% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.