East Central Eviction Risk: Moderate , Salt Lake City

Cost burden runs 65% here against 42.4% across Salt Lake County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.9/10. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $40,048, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.6 points above the Salt Lake County average of 3.8.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. At $1,140 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Salt Lake City commands. Court records carry 87 eviction filings across 9 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 1.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Salt Lake City. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.