Bartow Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.1/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.3/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. It sits 0.9 points below the Polk County average of 3.9.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 98 filings here across 17 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2000, when 5.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th 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 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $85,150, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

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.