West Palm Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate

87% 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. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.3/10. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $42,692, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,369, 23% below the West Palm Beach average.

Cost burden runs 61% here against 53.5% across Palm Beach County. It sits 1.1 points above the Palm Beach County average of 4.1. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Court records carry 1,151 eviction filings across 11 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 26.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 18.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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