Louisville Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Average gross rent is $1,410, 26% above the Louisville average.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.8/10. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 735 evictions over 14 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 15.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 12.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 19% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Social vulnerability reads 2.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

It tracks the Jefferson County average of 4.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $75,385.

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