Port Charlotte Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.2/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 15 evictions over 1 years of observation.

At $1,357 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Port Charlotte commands. Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 18% 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.

Social vulnerability reads 4.8/10 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 least pressured.

It tracks the Charlotte County average of 3.7 closely. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $63,352.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.