Lakewood Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against Jefferson County at 48.0%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $56,846, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

It sits 1.9 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.7. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 2.3/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7/10. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,808, close to the Lakewood average.

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