Melrose East Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against a Baton Rouge baseline of 35.4%, roughly two in three of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 46.9% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 55%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Food insecurity affects 64.3% of adults, 46.5 points above the national rate. This is a renter market: 97% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Annualized rent equals 47% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10.

Running cool is supply constraint, at 1.8/10. Average gross rent is $830, 22% below the Baton Rouge average of $1,067.

Among the 58 mapped neighborhoods of Baton Rouge, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third. For a like-for-like read, Eden Park and Goodwood Homesites score within a fraction of it. Social vulnerability runs high at 10/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

One tract means one number: 5.4/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.