New Iberia Eviction Risk: Elevated

67% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Iberia Parish average of 36.0%. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

SNAP participation runs 48.6% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 51%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Annualized rent equals 46% of average household income of $19,471, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Disability prevalence runs 52.8% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.1/10.

72% 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. Against the Iberia Parish average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Average gross rent is $741, 17% below the New Iberia average. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.