6 census tracts · pop 34,473 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 5.5/10
· range 4.6–5.8
Riviera Beach is a 6-tract suburb of Riviera Beach, FL and houses 34,473 people. That produces an Eviction Risk Score of 5.5/10, Moderate tier. The severe-burden share is 35%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.
Against a Riviera Beach baseline of 44.6%, 58% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. The strongest single driver of the headline number is rent-regulation exposure at 8.7/10.
Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 1.4/10. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10.
Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 4.6 to 5.8, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. At $1,407 a month, rents sit 17% under what the rest of Riviera Beach commands.
Court records carry 6,730 eviction filings across its 6 observed tracts. The poverty rate is 18%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The worst year on record was 2015, when filings touched 24.4% of renter households.
Judgments average 4.7% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Social vulnerability runs high at 8.9/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.
Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $65,269. 47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 5.5 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
6 tracts · population-weighted
Riviera Beach vs Riviera BeachHow this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority86%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport76%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab
Court-record eviction history in Riviera Beach
Aggregated across 6 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
6,730Total filings (sum)
13.39%Avg annual filing rate
24.4%Peak year (2015)
13.64%Latest filed (2015)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
2,320Total filings 2020-21
5.3Avg monthly observed
7.8Pre-pandemic baseline
0.67×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Other Oregon Counties).
Frequently asked
About Riviera Beach
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for Riviera Beach?
Riviera Beach scores 5.5/10 (Moderate tier) across 6 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2
How does Riviera Beach compare to Riviera Beach overall?
Riviera Beach scores 1.1 points higher than Riviera Beach overall (4.4/10). Renters spend 58% of income on rent vs 45% citywide. Average rent: $1,407 vs $1,702.
Q3
What is the average rent in Riviera Beach?
Average gross rent in Riviera Beach is $1,407/month (pop-weighted across 6 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4
What percentage of Riviera Beach residents are renters?
47% of Riviera Beach households are renter-occupied (vs 38% in Riviera Beach). The neighborhood has 34,473 residents.
Q5
Is Riviera Beach a high social-vulnerability area?
Riviera Beach sits in the 88th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (highly vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6
Which tracts in Riviera Beach have the highest eviction risk?
The highest-risk constituent tract in Riviera Beach is census tract 12099001301 (score 5.8/10). Across the 6 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 4.6 to 5.8, a spread of 1.2 points.
Q7
How safe is Riviera Beach for landlords?
Riviera Beach carries a moderate-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (5.5/10). Pop-weighted across 6 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Riviera Beach as a whole (4.4/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q8
What is the demographic breakdown of Riviera Beach?
Riviera Beach has 34,991 residents. Top groups: Black (non-Hispanic) (62.6%), Hispanic / Latino (16.1%), White (non-Hispanic) (15.8%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
