Forest Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Knoxville

Against Knox County at 40.9%, 81% of renters here are cost-burdened. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Knox County average of 3.7. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $1,079, 9% below the Knoxville average.

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. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $41,550.

59% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.