Lake Charles Eviction Risk: Moderate

72% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Calcasieu Parish average of 43.1%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Food insecurity runs 44.5% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $28,813, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.6% 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. Against the Calcasieu Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Average gross rent is $957, 14% below the Lake Charles average. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.1/10.

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.