Highland Eviction Risk: Lower , Billings

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.7/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Yellowstone County average of 3.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 16% 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 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $105,815, annual rent is just 12%.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,077, close to the Billings average.

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.