Lafayette Eviction Risk: Lower

The voucher gap is 29.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 7.9/10.

Cost burden runs 36% here against 44.6% across Lafayette Parish. At $1,359 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Lafayette commands.

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. That is riskier than roughly 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Lafayette Parish average of 4.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $64,375. 61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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