Melbourne Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.3/10. Set annual rent against average income of $38,654 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,113, 27% below the Melbourne average. Against the Brevard County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 489 eviction filings across 10 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2003 at 11.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 6.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Rent takes 30% or more of income for about half of renters.

62% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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