Sylvan Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Atlanta

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.6/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Fulton County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Fulton County at 46.8%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Housing insecurity runs 23.0% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 473 filings here across 5 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 32.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Atlanta. 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 26.0% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.