Merritt Island Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Brevard County average of 48.9%. It sits 0.9 points below the Brevard County average of 3.9. The filing record is not thin: 39 evictions over 10 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 3.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, 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. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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