Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Calcasieu Parish at 43.1%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 48.9% against 31.5% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0.

Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.