McFarland Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.9/10.

Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Average gross rent is $1,696, 16% above the McFarland average. The voucher gap is 15.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Housing insecurity runs 6.7% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 11% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $124,950, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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