Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 22019001500 · Calcasieu Parish, LA · pop 1,769
Census tract 22019001500 runs through Lake Charles. With 1,769 residents, it scores 5.2/10 for landlords. That is riskier than about 46% of US census tracts.
About 55% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 29% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $717 a month against an average household income of $28,896 a year, roughly 30% of income at the averages. Renters make up 45% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lake Charles and the region
Centroid at 30.2368, -93.1835 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lake Charles scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lake Charles compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 18%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 33.8%Housing insecurity
- 29.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 49.2%Food insecurity
- 51.2%SNAP enrollment
- 24.4%Transit barriers
- 13.3%No health insurance
- 21.9%Frequent mental distress
- 54.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Lake Charles
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Lake Charles eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Calcasieu County average of 4.6 and in line with the Louisiana statewide average of 4.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 33.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 29.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 77th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Lake Charles
Top eight tracts in Lake Charles ranked by composite eviction-risk score.