Rivermeade Eviction Risk: Lower , Atlanta

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10.

58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Fulton County average of 46.8%. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.9% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Fulton County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Average gross rent is $1,989, 16% above the Atlanta average.

The filing record is not thin: 368 evictions over 5 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 71.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 42.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 7% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 2.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $235,278, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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