Beacon Eviction Risk: Moderate , New Smyrna Beach

Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.2/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

At $1,197 a month, rents run 30% under what the rest of New Smyrna Beach commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 108 filings here across 3 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2017 at 7.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 23% 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Volusia County average of 3.8 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.