Highland Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower , Palm Harbor

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

At $1,488 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Palm Harbor commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 132 filings here across 16 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2004, when 10.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Pinellas County average of 3.8 closely. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $67,467.

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