Lexington Eviction Risk: Lower

Average gross rent is $900, 42% below the Lexington average. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.7/10.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. SNAP participation runs 5.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Court records carry 310 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2013, when 18.0% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 15.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $74,132, annual rent is just 15%. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 38% of renters.

It tracks the Lexington County average of 3.9 closely.

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