Southgate Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.3/10.

The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Sarasota County average of 50.3%.

Court records carry 104 eviction filings across 5 observed years. At $1,456 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Southgate commands. The worst year on record was 2002, when 4.7% 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 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Sarasota County average of 3.8 closely.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $71,322.

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