Tallahassee Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 12073001001 · Leon, FL · pop 2,974
How risky is Tallahassee for landlords? Census tract 12073001001 scores 5.8/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 69% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 55% of renter households, a severe level, and 27% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $796 monthly, set against $25,075 in average yearly household income, roughly 38% of income at the averages. About 90% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Tallahassee and the region
Centroid at 30.4156, -84.2733 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tallahassee scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Tallahassee compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1,702Total filings over 13 yrs
- 16.06%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.0%Peak (2013)
- 91Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Tallahassee
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Tallahassee eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Leon County average of 5.0 and above the Florida statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 97th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,702 eviction filings here over 13 tracked years, with about 16.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 24.0% of renter households in 2013.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 12073001001
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