Kingsport Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Cost burden runs about a quarter here against 35.9% across Sullivan County.

On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 0.7 points below the Sullivan County average of 3.7.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 21% 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $71,512, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.