Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Augusta
Tract 13245001100 · Richmond County, GA · pop 1,775 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
How risky is the Highland Park area of Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) for landlords? Census tract 13245001100 scores 5.6/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 62% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 71% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $970 a month against an average household income of $98,807 a year, roughly 12% of income at the averages. About 23% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Augusta and the region
Centroid at 33.4738, -82.0253 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Park scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Highland Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 6%Grade A
- 26%Grade B
- 40%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 99Total filings over 9 yrs
- 4.93%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2004)
- 13Filings in 2010 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Highland Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 6.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.9%Food insecurity
- 4.6%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 6.8%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 23.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Highland Park
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 3.6/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Augusta eviction risk-Richmond County consolidated government (balance), while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Richmond County average of 5.8 and in line with the Georgia statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 41st 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 99 eviction filings here over 9 tracked years, with about 4.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 4.9% of renter households in 2004.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 13245001100
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