Westover Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hattiesburg

Cost burden runs 58% here against 35.8% across Lamar County. At $1,424 a month, rents run 42% over what the rest of Hattiesburg commands. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $51,771 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The voucher gap is 24.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 2.5/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Lamar County average of 4.3. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 6.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MS average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. 60% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.