Audobon Trace Eviction Risk: Lower , Lafayette

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. 52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Lafayette Parish average of 44.6%.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The voucher gap is 17.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Lafayette Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. SNAP participation runs 6.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,237, 12% above the Lafayette average. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 18% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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