Straw/Smyth Eviction Risk: Lower , Manchester

Against Hillsborough County at 45.2%, 32% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.5/10. SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,308, 16% below the Manchester average.

The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Manchester. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #56,048 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $105,357, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.