Cottage Grove Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.5/10. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10. SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Average gross rent is $2,079, 17% above the Cottage Grove average. Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.3/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 12% 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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $143,144, annual rent is just 17%.

Statewide the MN average is 4.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

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.