South Salem Eviction Risk: Moderate

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.9/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, state political climate reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 438 filings here across 16 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2004, when 5.7% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Marion County average of 6.0 closely. Average gross rent is $1,295, close to the Salem average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $83,955.

44% 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.