Rivergate Eviction Risk: Lower , Lafayette

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. SNAP participation runs 5.5% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 1.0 points below the Lafayette Parish average of 4.0. Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $86,635, annual rent is just 15%. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for about half of renters. Average gross rent is $1,115, close to the Lafayette average.

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