Mount Vernon Eviction Risk: Elevated , Columbus
Tract 13215010704 · Muscogee County, GA · pop 2,855 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 13215010704 sits in the Mount Vernon area of Columbus eviction risk, Georgia eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. That is riskier than about 62% of US census tracts.
About 48% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 20% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $912 monthly, set against $38,139 in average yearly household income, roughly 29% of income at the averages. About 65% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 32.4334, -84.9224 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Vernon scores 6.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mount Vernon compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 27.3%Housing insecurity
- 20.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.4%Food insecurity
- 35.2%SNAP enrollment
- 18.5%Transit barriers
- 16.0%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 40.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Mount Vernon
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.4/10. 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 Columbus eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Muscogee County average of 5.0 and in line with the Georgia statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 70th 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 27.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 20.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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