The Highlands Eviction Risk: Lower , Smyrna

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. The voucher gap is 15.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Rutherford County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 10% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.

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