Marrero Eviction Risk: Moderate

62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Jefferson Parish average of 47.9%. Average gross rent is $1,397, 34% above the Marrero average.

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.6/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $50,280, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 31.7% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Jefferson Parish average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for New Orleans. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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 6.2/10, 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 household composition measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.