Palm Bay Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Brevard County at 48.9%, 68% of renters here are cost-burdened. Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,283, 20% below the Palm Bay average. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Brevard County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $74,063. 26% 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.