Kingsport Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Cost burden runs 46% here against 35.9% across Sullivan County.

Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $687, 24% below the Kingsport average. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

That is riskier than roughly 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $46,701, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Sullivan County average of 3.7 closely.

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