Basic City Eviction Risk: Moderate

34% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes the score up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.2/10. On the softer side is supply constraint, at 2/10.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Filings are well documented here: 709 across 2 observed tracts.

Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.6/10. At $894 a month, rents sit 12% under what the rest of Waynesboro commands. The worst year on record was 2014, when filings touched 15.0% of renter households.

Recent filings have not receded much: 14.1% in 2016 against a 15.0% peak. Social vulnerability runs high at 9.5/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

Its 2 tracts score within 0.8 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $43,656. 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

With little internal variation, 5.2/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.