Salem Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 22% here against 34.6% across Harrison County. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.3/10.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. SNAP participation runs 24.5% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 0.7 points above the Harrison County average of 3.7. That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 23% 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.

Social vulnerability reads 6.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $42,589, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $531, close to the Salem average.

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.