Smiley Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 32.9% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. Pulling the other way is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. On the softer side is supply constraint, at 2.4/10.

Disability prevalence reaches 46.3% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. 11% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

At $907 a month, rents sit 15% under what the rest of Baton Rouge commands. Among the 58 mapped neighborhoods of Baton Rouge, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Goodwood Homesites and Melrose Place. Social vulnerability runs high at 8.8/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $41,394. 58% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 5.4/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.