Kildare Eviction Risk: Moderate , Merrydale

SNAP participation runs 33.8% against 15.2% nationally. The score leans hardest on housing-court posture at 8.2/10. Average gross rent is $933, 29% below the Merrydale average.

Against the East Baton Rouge Parish average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.