Lafayette Eviction Risk: Moderate

Set annual rent against average income of $22,130 and the ratio lands at 51%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 32.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Disability prevalence runs 53.8% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Lafayette Parish average of 4.0. Against Lafayette Parish at 44.6%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Average gross rent is $945, 14% below the Lafayette average. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 64% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.