Kingsport Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. 18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

At $832 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Kingsport commands. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 5.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $59,770, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

39% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Sullivan County average of 3.7 closely.

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.