Merritt Island Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10.

The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against Brevard County at 48.9%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Court records carry 81 eviction filings across 10 observed years.

It sits 0.7 points below the Brevard County average of 3.9. The worst year on record was 2002, when 5.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 25% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $59,716, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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