East Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

At $699 a month, rents run 37% under what the rest of Columbus commands. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 44.6% across Muscogee County. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.3/10. This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 24.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Muscogee County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Columbus. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.