9th & 9th Eviction Risk: Moderate , Salt Lake City

27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 1.9/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

It sits 1.6 points above the Salt Lake County average of 3.8. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 78 filings here across 9 tracked years.

SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,258 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Salt Lake City commands.

The worst year on record was 2008, when 1.2% 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. In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing.

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