Dalton Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Whitfield County at 35.7%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.

Housing insecurity runs 29.0% against 14.2% nationally. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Whitfield County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. At $848 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Dalton commands.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the GA average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $40,616.

46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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