Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 49.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 51.2% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $717, 35% below the Lake Charles average.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Cost burden runs 55% here against 43.1% across Calcasieu Parish. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.3/10.

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 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition 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.