Belfair Eviction Risk: Moderate , Baton Rouge

Housing insecurity runs 33.9% against 14.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $25,699, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 27.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Average gross rent is $841, 21% below the Baton Rouge average. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 4.3. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.