Henry County evictions outrun every county Atlanta measures
Start with evictions. The Henry County magistrate court publishes its dispossessory trial roster every Monday, and its case numbers are the court’s own running counter of filings. The 475 rosters published since 2019 let anyone count them directly. The 2025 total: 9,673 filings, about 48 per 100 renter households for the same window the Eviction Lab used. Clayton, the county Atlanta itself calls its eviction capital, runs 37. Henry beats that, and it has sat at that level three years running: 44, 44 and 48. The 2019 baseline was 31.
The foreclosure line crosses the eviction line in Stockbridge
Foreclosure tells the same story from the homeowner’s end of the rental years. Sheriff sale notices per 1,000 housing units: Stockbridge 15.1, the worst jurisdiction on the board, Rockdale 12.4, Henry 11.2. North and west, Coweta and Fayette sit at 3.9 and 4.1. ATTOM’s August state report, cited by the Athens Business Chronicle and WRDW, names Rockdale and Henry as Georgia’s two worst counties for foreclosure filings per housing unit. Every county here worsened from 2023 to the 2026 pace except Coweta, which held flat.
Put the two charts together and the south side is the region’s displacement belt, and Stockbridge sits at the crossing of both lines. Henry County evictions now run at a rate the national trackers would call an anomaly anywhere else, and homeowners here are losing houses at triple the rate of the northwestern suburbs. City officials keep selling Stockbridge as the city of events. The court rosters and the sheriff’s sale calendar describe a city where more and more people cannot keep the housing they came for.
Sources: Atlanta Regional Commission / Eviction Lab (Oct 9, 2026), LSC Civil Court Data Initiative, Henry County Magistrate Court dispossessory rosters, monthly Georgia sheriff sale lists (ForeclosureBidsList), ATTOM foreclosure figures via WRDW, housing denominators from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024.
Method note. Two honest limits. A filing is not an eviction: some cases are repeat filings against the same household or end in dismissal, but that caveat applies to every county on both charts, so the rankings stand. And the rosters list parties, not property addresses, so no public record supports a Stockbridge-only eviction count; the county rate is the city rate as far as the data reaches.