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Neighborhood · Ranked #14,316 of 84,120 nationally

South Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate , Miami Beach

Tract 12086004404 · Miami-Dade, FL · pop 2,127 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 12086004404 sits in South Beach in Miami Beach eviction risk, Florida eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of $1/10. It lands near the 75th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.

About 44% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,274 a month while the average household earns $40,744 a year, roughly 38% of income at the averages. Renters make up 74% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33% Stable renters 42% Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units1,464
Renter share74.1%
SVI overall0.94
Poverty rate35.0%
Median income$40,744

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In South Beach
Very High
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 29 tracts In Miami Beach
Very High
Within county
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#55 of 706 tracts In Miami-Dade
Very High
Within state
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#175 of 5,122 tracts In Florida
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Miami Beach and the region

Centroid at 25.7775, -80.1314 · click any tract to drill in

Why South Beach scores 5.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Miami Beach
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.4
State political climate
Florida legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
35.0% poverty · this tract
8.8
Supply constraint
$1,274 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Miami Beach
8.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Miami Beach
9.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Miami Beach
7.6

How South Beach compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
South Beach risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 004404Miami Beach: 2.42.4Miami Beachparent cityCounty: 3.93.9Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.53.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 94

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 51Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 2.58%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.9%Peak (2015)
  • 22Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 113Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.86×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-01-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2020-02-01: 2 filings (1.50× baseline)2020-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 1 filings (0.55× baseline)2020-05-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2020-06-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 1 filings (0.60× baseline)2020-09-01: 1 filings (1.20× baseline)2020-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-01-01: 4 filings (4.00× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 1 filings (0.55× baseline)2021-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-06-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2021-07-01: 3 filings (1.64× baseline)2021-08-01: 5 filings (2.99× baseline)2021-09-01: 4 filings (4.82× baseline)2021-10-01: 3 filings (0.95× baseline)2021-11-01: 3 filings (1.20× baseline)2021-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-01-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2022-02-01: 2 filings (1.50× baseline)2022-03-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2022-04-01: 1 filings (0.55× baseline)2022-05-01: 3 filings (2.26× baseline)2022-06-01: 3 filings (1.29× baseline)2022-07-01: 4 filings (2.19× baseline)2022-08-01: 6 filings (3.59× baseline)2022-09-01: 2 filings (2.41× baseline)2022-10-01: 1 filings (0.32× baseline)2022-11-01: 3 filings (1.20× baseline)2022-12-01: 2 filings (1.00× baseline)2023-01-01: 4 filings (4.00× baseline)2023-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-03-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-04-01: 3 filings (1.64× baseline)2023-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-06-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2023-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-08-01: 2 filings (1.20× baseline)2023-09-01: 2 filings (2.41× baseline)2023-10-01: 4 filings (1.26× baseline)2023-11-01: 2 filings (0.80× baseline)2023-12-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2024-01-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-02-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2024-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-04-01: 2 filings (1.09× baseline)2024-05-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2024-06-01: 1 filings (0.43× baseline)2024-07-01: 2 filings (1.09× baseline)2024-08-01: 1 filings (0.60× baseline)2024-09-01: 1 filings (1.20× baseline)2024-10-01: 1 filings (0.32× baseline)2024-11-01: 1 filings (0.40× baseline)2024-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-01-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2025-02-01: 1 filings (0.75× baseline)2025-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 4 filings (2.19× baseline)2025-05-01: 2 filings (1.50× baseline)2025-06-01: 2 filings (0.86× baseline)2025-07-01: 2 filings (1.09× baseline)2025-08-01: 1 filings (0.60× baseline)2025-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-10-01: 1 filings (0.32× baseline)2025-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Miami as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within South Beach. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in South Beach

The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 9.6/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Miami Beach eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Miami-Dade County average of 5.3 and above the Florida statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 51 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 2.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 2.9% of renter households in 2015.

The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 94th 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.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 12086004404

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 12086004404?

Census tract 12086004404 in the South Beach neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 12086004404?

Median gross rent is $1,274/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 12086004404?

35.0% of residents in tract 12086004404 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,127.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 12086004404?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 86th, minority 79th, housing 74th.
Q5

Is tract 12086004404 considered part of South Beach?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 12086004404 fall within South Beach (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 12086004404?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 51 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 12086004404 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.58% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 12086004404 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.86× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Miami eviction risk), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 12086004404 compare to Miami Beach overall?

Tract 12086004404 scores 5.8/10, higher than the parent city of Miami Beach at 2.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Miami Beach eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 12086004404 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Miami Beach

Top eight tracts in Miami Beach ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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