Tifton Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 47% here against 33.0% across Tift County. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9/10.

This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $935 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Tifton commands. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Adults with no health insurance runs 20.4% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Against the Tift County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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