Merritt Island Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running cool, economic stress reads 2.1/10. At $1,179 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Merritt Island commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 259 filings here across 10 tracked years.

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Brevard County average of 48.9%. Filings peaked in 2003 at 4.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Brevard County average of 3.9 closely.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $73,553.

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