Rockledge Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

Against Brevard County at 48.9%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Brevard County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 281 evictions over 10 years of observation.

At $1,552 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Rockledge commands. Filings peaked in 2003 at 27.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 7.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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