Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Augusta

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10. 79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.2/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

SNAP participation runs 24.0% against 15.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Augusta. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in two of renters.

It tracks the Richmond County average of 4.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,102, close to the Augusta average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.