Junction City Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.4/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.

Food insecurity runs 30.7% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Geary County average of 3.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Cost burden runs 45% here against 38.8% across Geary County.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the KS average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.