Central City Eviction Risk: Moderate , Salt Lake City

36% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

The dominant input is economic stress at 8.9/10. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $47,335, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Against the Salt Lake County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 208 eviction filings across 9 observed years. Average gross rent is $1,579, 12% above the Salt Lake City average.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 2.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.