Essex Junction Eviction Risk: Moderate

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. Disability prevalence runs 19.2% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10. Against the Chittenden County average of 5.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. At $1,417 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Essex Junction commands.

Nationally it ranks #44,239 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 2.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $97,582, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 55% of renters. 40% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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