Melrose East Eviction Risk: Moderate , Baton Rouge

68% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 50.3%. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 41.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Disability prevalence runs 55.7% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 55%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 97% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Annualized rent equals 47% of average household income of $21,339, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

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

Against the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 10/10 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.

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.