Lakeland Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 79% here against 45.8% across Polk County. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

Average gross rent is $1,133, 19% below the Lakeland average. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.7% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 486 evictions over 17 years of observation.

Against the Polk County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2002 at 17.1% of renter households.

In a typical year about 9.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $44,779.

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.