Southaven Eviction Risk: Lower

The voucher gap is 32.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. At $1,794 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Southaven commands.

SNAP participation runs 3.8% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.7% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 0.7 points below the DeSoto County average of 3.7. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 14% 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 1.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MS average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. 37% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.