West Merrydale Eviction Risk: Moderate

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 37.5% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. SNAP participation is 53.5% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 28%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. At $754 a month, rents sit 29% under what the rest of Baton Rouge commands. Set annual rent against average household income of $27,866 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 1.5/10. On the high side is economic stress at 7.4/10. Among the 58 mapped neighborhoods of Baton Rouge, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.

For a like-for-like read, Goodwood Homesites and Melrose Place score within a fraction of it. Social vulnerability runs high at 9.8/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

With little internal variation, 5.4/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.