Delray Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $62,083, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The main counterweight is state political climate at 1.5/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.4/10.

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Palm Beach County average of 53.5%. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Against the Palm Beach County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

The filing record is not thin: 223 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2011 at 10.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 7.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 8.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,921, close to the Delray Beach average.

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