Independence Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.7/10.

Average gross rent is $1,568, 25% above the Independence average. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. The voucher gap is 21.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Against the Kenton County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 4% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the KY average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $103,815.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.