West Palm Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.2% against 11.3% nationally. Against Palm Beach County at 53.5%, 46% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Palm Beach County average of 4.1.

The filing record is not thin: 582 evictions over 11 years of observation. At $1,577 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of West Palm Beach commands.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 8.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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