Winter Haven Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.3/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Polk County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

Against Polk County at 45.8%, 53% of renters here are cost-burdened. Court records carry 952 eviction filings across 17 observed years. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.7% against 11.3% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 11.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 8.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.3/10. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,269, close to the Winter Haven average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $49,288.

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.