South Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate , Miami Beach

Set annual rent against average income of $67,614 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 24% 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, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.2/10.

70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. Against Miami-Dade County at 57.9%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $2,195 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Miami Beach commands. It sits 0.9 points above the Miami-Dade County average of 4.6. The filing record is not thin: 98 evictions over 2 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 4.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Miami. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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