Mississippi Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.0 points below the Multnomah County average of 7.4. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 240 filings here across 16 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 8.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.9/10. Against average income of $128,611, annual rent is just 17%.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,782, close to the Portland average.

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