Merritt Island Eviction Risk: Lower

At $1,963 a month, rents run 36% over what the rest of Merritt Island commands. Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.2/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The voucher gap is 20.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 0.9 points below the Brevard County average of 3.9. The filing record is not thin: 20 evictions over 9 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 4.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 12% 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10.

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