South Salt Lake Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.

Average gross rent is $1,153, 21% below the South Salt Lake average. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Salt Lake County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

The filing record is not thin: 569 evictions over 9 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2012, when 6.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.6% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 59% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the UT average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 42% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $69,155.

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