Lawrence Eviction Risk: Lower

Average gross rent is $2,011, 71% above the Lawrence average. 30% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Marion County average of 46.3%. The voucher gap is 56.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.8% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 1.2 points below the Marion County average of 4.2.

Food insecurity runs 7.8% against 17.8% nationally. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 5% 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 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $139,830, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.