Caddo Parish, Louisiana Eviction Risk: Low

Caddo Parish lands a 3.3/10 average eviction-risk score across its 10 tracked cities, placing it in the Low risk tier on paper but ranking 4th out of 64 Louisiana parishes, meaning only 3 parishes in the state carry higher risk. That ranking matters: landlords should not mistake a below-5 score for a trouble-free market. With nearly half the parish population renting (an average renter share of 45.4%) and an average poverty rate of 23.5%, tenant financial stress is a real operating variable that shows up in collections and lease stability.

Within the parish, risk is not uniform. Individual city scores span 2 to 3.3, a full point of spread that reflects meaningfully different tenant-pool economics and neighborhood conditions. Investors who treat Caddo Parish as a monolithic market miss that variation entirely. Average rent across the parish runs $967 per month, while the average rent burden sits at 33.9% of income, a figure high enough to compress tenant financial cushions when income disruptions occur.

The cities inside Caddo Parish

The highest-risk corner of the parish is its smaller outlying communities. Vivian tops the list at 3.2/10 (population 2,975), followed closely by Blanchard at 3/10 (population 3,437). Greenwood, Lakeview, and Mooringsport all score 2.9/10, and Belcher and Rodessa each come in at 2.2/10. These communities share a pattern of smaller, more economically constrained renter pools where a single delinquency can hit a small landlord's cash flow disproportionately hard.

Shreveport, the dominant city and home to the overwhelming majority of the parish's 193,867 residents at a population of 180,982, scores a comparatively moderate 3.8/10, which is also the parish minimum. Its scale provides diversification that smaller markets cannot offer, though the underlying poverty and rent-burden figures still warrant careful tenant screening. Risk in Caddo Parish is genuinely hyper-local: operating in Shreveport is a different underwriting decision than operating in Vivian.

State-level laws that apply here

Under Louisiana eviction process rules, landlords serve a 5-day notice for non-payment of rent or a lease violation, and a 30-day notice for end-of-term or no-cause terminations, all governed by La. R.S. § 9:3251 et seq. (Louisiana eviction laws Lease Law). An uncontested case typically resolves in 14 to 30 days; a contested matter can stretch to 30 to 90 days. Direct costs range from $170 to $300 in court filing fees, $50 to $175 in sheriff lockout fees, and attorney fees that span $500 to $3,000 depending on case complexity.

Louisiana eviction laws state law imposes no just-cause requirement for non-renewal, and the state preempts local rent control ordinances, so no parish or city in Louisiana eviction laws can cap rent independently. Louisiana eviction costs are therefore driven primarily by attorney fees and case duration rather than by landlord-hostile local policy. Landlords should review Louisiana security deposit limits and Louisiana tenant protections to understand their full compliance baseline before placing tenants anywhere in the parish.

With an average poverty rate of 23.5% and nearly 45.4% of residents renting, financial pressure on tenants is the primary risk variable in Caddo Parish; the city-by-city grid above breaks down exactly where that pressure concentrates.