Lakeland Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, economic stress reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,125, 19% below the Lakeland average.

The filing record is not thin: 54 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 2015 at 8.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 9.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 4% 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. Social vulnerability reads 5.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $59,615.

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.