New Iberia Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 46.7% against 31.5% nationally.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.3 points above the Iberia Parish average of 4.4. Food insecurity runs 29.6% against 17.8% nationally.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

35% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.