Lafayette Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Against the Lafayette Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. At $930 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Lafayette commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 2.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $66,132, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters.

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.