Kingsport Eviction Risk: Lower

The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Sullivan County average of 35.9%. Disability prevalence runs 43.8% against 31.5% nationally.

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 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Sullivan County average of 3.7 closely. Average gross rent is $965, close to the Kingsport average.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $55,559. 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.