Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Lower

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Against the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Average gross rent is $1,295, 17% above the Lake Charles average.

SNAP participation runs 6.0% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 8.9% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The voucher gap is 13.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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