St. Petersburg Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Pinellas County at 53.4%, 78% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $42,458, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10.

75% 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. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Pinellas County average of 3.8.

The filing record is not thin: 2,014 evictions over 18 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,446, 13% below the St. Petersburg average. Filings peaked in 2003 at 15.8% of renter households.

In a typical year about 8.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.