Towles Court Eviction Risk: Moderate , Sarasota

65% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Sarasota County average of 50.3%. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.7 points above the Sarasota County average of 3.8. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 241 evictions over 5 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,496, 11% below the Sarasota average. The worst year on record was 2002, when 4.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $61,130.

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