Bartow Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Cost burden runs 39% here against 45.8% across Polk County. It sits 1.2 points above the Polk County average of 3.9.

Adults with no health insurance runs 19.8% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 931 evictions over 17 years of observation. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.1/10.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 9.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

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