Merritt Island Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.2/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.

Average gross rent is $1,165, 19% below the Merritt Island average. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 279 evictions over 10 years of observation.

It sits 0.8 points above the Brevard County average of 3.9. The worst year on record was 2003, when 11.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $64,167. 43% 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.