Merritt Island Eviction Risk: Lower

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.5/10. Court records carry 84 eviction filings across 10 observed years.

Against the Brevard County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 4.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.8/10. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

Average gross rent is $1,474, close to the Merritt Island average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $91,442.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.